Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Severe constipation caused by intestinal obstruction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of stopping up, as a passage.
- noun In medicine, costiveness; constipation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of stopping up, as a passage.
- noun (Med.), obsolete Extreme constipation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
severe constipation caused byintestinal obstruction
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun severe constipation resulting from an obstruction in the intestines
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Have you been informed that eventually the constipation will lead to obstipation with impactions and eventually there will be kidney failure with fluid volume overload?
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These folds within the canal may become too much narrowed by disease and thus prevent the movement of the matters inside; this is obstipation.
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Constipation, obstipation and diarrhea may alternate through the progress of the case.
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We have found out the almost universal cause for constipation, obstipation and costiveness; therefore until you can have the proper local treatment we suggest the following foodstuffs, trusting to the sufferer's judgment how much and how often to take the nourishment.
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We would expect people suffering from constipation or obstipation to pass as fairly well people for a time, but the same is not true of patients having the other condition, costiveness.
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The words constipation, obstipation and costiveness are often employed as if of exactly similar meaning, but it is well to let each stand for
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The untrained cannot distinguish between obstipation and constipation.
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The untrained cannot distinguish between obstipation and constipation.
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