constipation

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

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