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How to pronounce constipation in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms deadening, impairment, stultification
Type of debasement, degradation
Type Words
Synonyms irregularity
Type of symptom
Has types dyschezia, fecal impaction, obstipation
Derivation constipate

Examples of constipation

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By chewing more, you can help resolve constipation, indigestion, and overeating.
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The patient has DOW constipation with Euro Stoxx-50 enlarged and tortuous veins.
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At the time he had constipation issues, and I ended up doing a lemon-prune cake.
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Constipation can occur if insufficient fluid is consumed with a high-fiber diet.
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Stephanie Meade's 4-year-old daughter had constipation and threw temper tantrums.
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Supplemental amounts required to overcome iron deficiency can cause constipation.
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Main symptoms are abdominal pain, bloating and diarrhea or constipation, or both.
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A gradual increase in the amount of fiber a person eats can prevent constipation.
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She says she used acupuncture to help patients relieve constipation and vomiting.
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More examples
  • Irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis
  • Stultification: the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
  • (constipate) clog: impede with a clog or as if with a clog; "The market is being clogged by these operations"; "My mind is constipated today"
  • (constipate) cause to be constipated; "These foods tend to constipate you"
  • (constipated) have difficult or incomplete or infrequent evacuation of the bowels
  • Constipation (also known as costiveness , dyschezia, and dyssynergic defaecation) refers to bowel movements that are infrequent and hard to pass. Constipation is a common cause of painful defecation. Severe constipation includes obstipation and fecal impaction (see also Bowel obstruction).
  • Act of crowding anything into a lesser compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation; A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces; costiveness
  • (constipated) The state of being unable to defecate
  • Reduced stool frequency, or hard stools, difficulty passing stools, or painful bowel movements.