Constriction, the opposite of dilation or dilatation, also refers to vasoconstriction, the narrowing of blood vessels caused by vascular smooth muscle contractions.
Constriction can also refer to the act of binding a victim with rope.
whereas a constellation is a group of stars that appear to have a physical proximity in the sky. The stars in a constellation are often vastly distant from each other, but they appear close to each other from the perspective of Earth. The word is used colloquially to refer to asterims: groups of stars that appear to form patterns in the sky; different world cultures have divided the stars into different constellations.
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