constipation

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces. countable,uncountable
    — If you also knew how to combine foods—that is, what foods eaten together “set well,” you need never have indigestion, constipation or any of the headachy, stomachachy ills they lead to.
  2. The act of crowding anything into a lesser space, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation. countable,uncountable

词形变化

constipations plural

词汇关系

衍生词
anticonstipation verbal constipation
相关词
Constipation in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

词源

First attested in the beginning of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English constipacioun, borrowed from Medieval Latin constīpātiō or its Old French equivalent, from cōnstīpō + -tiō. By surface analysis, constipate + -ion.
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