constipation
constipation is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faces; costiveness.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- air
- alley
- bar
- blind
- block
- blockade
- bolt
- bung
- button
- caecal
- caecum
- choke
- clinch
- close
- closure
- contraction
- cork
- corner
- cram
- cul-de-sac
- dam
- door
- down
- embolus
- fill
- hermetically
- hinder
- hindrance
- impassable
- impenetrable
- imperforate
- imperforation
- impermeability
- impermeable
- impervious
- imporous
- infarction
- invious
- keddah
- obstipation
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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