单词 | constipation |
释义 | constipation /kon'steuh pay"sheuhn/, n. 1. a condition of the bowels in which the feces are dry and hardened and evacuation is difficult and infrequent. 2. Informal. a state of slowing down, sluggishness, or inactivity. 3. Obs. the act of crowding anything into a smaller compass; condensation. [1375-1425; late ME constipacioun ( < MF) < LL constipation- (s. of constipatio). See CONSTIPATE, -ION] |
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