What is a state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faces; costiveness called?
constipation — A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faces; costiveness. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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