Usually means: Severe, persistent inability to defecate.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. obstipation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. obstipation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. obstipation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. obstipation: Vocabulary.com
  5. obstipation: Wordnik
  6. obstipation: Wiktionary
  7. obstipation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. obstipation: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. obstipation: Dictionary.com
  10. Obstipation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Obstipation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. obstipation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. obstipation: Rhymezone
  14. obstipation: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  15. Obstipation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. obstipation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. obstipation: FreeDictionary.org
  18. obstipation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. obstipation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. obstipation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. obstipation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Obstipation: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  8. obstipation: Medical dictionary
  9. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  10. Obstipation: MedFriendly Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (obstipation)

▸ noun:  severe constipation caused by intestinal obstruction

Similar:
bowel obstruction, pseudoobstruction, blockage, coprostasis, pseudo-obstruction, dyschezia, occlusive ileus, enterostenosis, enterospasm, fecal impaction, more...

Opposite:
defecation, regularity, bowel movement

Adjectives:
chronic, severe, complete, persistent, habitual, functional, spastic, postoperative, obstinate, intractable, acute

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Similar:
bowel obstruction, pseudoobstruction, blockage, coprostasis, pseudo-obstruction, dyschezia, occlusive ileus, enterostenosis, enterospasm, fecal impaction, more...

Opposite:
defecation, regularity, bowel movement

Adjectives:
chronic, severe, complete, persistent, habitual, functional, spastic, postoperative, obstinate, intractable, acute



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