Constipation
11Constipation — in a young child as seen by X ray. Circles represent areas of fecal matter (stool is opaque white surrounded by black bowel gas) …
12Constipation — La constipation (d après le latin co  : « avec »+ stipare : rendre raide, compact ) est une difficulté à déféquer. Les selles sont alors généralement dures et de petit volume. Plusieurs définitions médicales coexistent, la… …
13Constipation — Infrequent (and frequently incomplete) bowel movements. The opposite of diarrhea, constipation is commonly caused by irritable bowel syndrome, diverticulosis, and medications (constipation can paradoxically be caused by overuse of laxatives).… …
14constipation — /kon steuh pay sheuhn/, n. 1. a condition of the bowels in which the feces are dry and hardened and evacuation is difficult and infrequent. 2. Informal. a state of slowing down, sluggishness, or inactivity. 3. Obs. the act of crowding anything… …
15constipation — n. a condition in which bowel evacuations occur infrequently, or in which the faeces are hard and small, or where passage of faeces causes difficulty or pain. The frequency of bowel evacuation varies considerably from person to person and the… …
16constipation — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ severe ▪ chronic … OF CONSTIPATION ▪ bout VERB + CONSTIPATION ▪ have, suffer from …
17CONSTIPATION — s. f. État de celui qui est constipé. Une si longue constipation est dangereuse …
18CONSTIPATION — n. f. état de celui qui est constipé. Une si longue constipation est dangereuse …
19constipation — (kon sti pa sion) s. f. État de celui qui ne peut aller librement à la selle. HISTORIQUE XVIe s. • Pour la densité du cuir, ou pour la constipation des pores d iceluy, PARÉ XX, 2. ÉTYMOLOGIE Provenç. constipacio ; espagn. constipacion ;… …
20constipation — [15] Latin constīpātiō originally meant ‘condition of being closely packed or compressed’. Its English descendant constipation was briefly used in that literal sense in the 17th and 18th centuries, but for the most part it has been a medical term …
