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The condition of having difficulty passing solid waste from the body — hard stools, straining, or going much less often than usual. This is the noun; the person who has it is . It is a normal medical and everyday word, not a rude one, though people may lower their voice. Drinking water, eating fibre, and moving around are the usual first advice; medicine packets talk about constipation too.
便秘
組成First attested in the 1400s, in Middle English constipacioun; inherited from Middle English, borrowed from Medieval Latin constīpātiō or Old French, from cōnstīpō + -tiō. By surface analysis: constipate + -ion. The Latin pieces are con- (“together”) plus a verb about packing or cramming.
同家族的字
- constipatedthe adjective: describing someone who has this condition
- constipatethe verb: to cause this condition
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
constipationnoun/ˌkɒnstɪˈpeɪʃən/
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A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces.
- 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.
- Review of systems was positive for unintentional weight gain of 13.5 kilograms in the last eight months, excessive fatigue, fever, difficulty focusing, one episode of painful oral ulcer on the roof of her mouth, change in the hair texture with nonscarring alopecia, shortness of breath with exertion, and constipation.
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The act of crowding anything into a lesser space, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。