Usually means: Difficulty in passing bowel movements.
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  1. constipation: Merriam-Webster
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  3. constipation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  9. constipation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  14. constipation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. constipation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  20. constipation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  24. constipation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. constipation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Constipation: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. Constipation: Merck Manuals
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  16. Constipation: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces.
noun:  The act of crowding anything into a lesser space, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.

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