constipation

From Latin constīpātiō.

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

constipation (countable and uncountable, plural constipations)

1. Act of crowding anything into a lesser compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.
2. A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces; costiveness.

• Constipation in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

From Latin constīpātiō.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃s.ti.pa.sjɔ̃/

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constipation f (plural constipations)

1. constipation

• constiper

• “constipation” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).