The condition of being costive; an instance of this; = constipation, n. 2b.

The action or an act of blocking or rendering impassable an opening, passage, thoroughfare, etc.; the fact or condition of being blocked or…

Medicine. spec. Confinement of the bowels: a state of the bowels in which the evacuations are obstructed or stopped; costiveness.

Medicine. Constipation; obstipation. Obsolete.

Blockage, obstruction; spec. severe constipation, intestinal obstruction. Also: an instance of this.

Costiveness (of the stomach or bowels). Obsolete.

The state or condition of being bound (in various senses of the verb).

Costiveness (of the stomach or bowels). Obsolete.

spec. in Medicine. The lodging of a mass of (usually hardened) faeces in the intestine so that defecation is prevented or impeded; hence, the…