Medicine. spec. To confine the bowels, so that the fæces are passed with difficulty; to render costive.
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| 释义 | the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > cause excretory disorder [verb (transitive)] > constipation (7) constipate1541 Medicine. spec. To confine the bowels, so that the fæces are passed with difficulty; to render costive. stop1542 To make costive, to bind. Also absol. Obsolete. inveterate1574 To make old; to establish or confirm by age or long continuance; to root or implant deeply; to render chronic; †also, to harden (the bowels); to… detain1580 To constipate, ‘bind’; also absol. to cause constipation. Obsolete. bind1597 ‘To hinder the natural flux of the bowels, to make costive’ (Johnson). Cf. confine, v. 9. restringe1598 transitive. Medicine. To have a restringent effect upon; spec. to cause constipation in. Also intransitive: to act as a restringent. Cf. restringing… confine1870 To restrain (the bowels) from acting, constipate; = bind, v. 4. |
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