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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

便秘を起こす

Pronunciation / Transliteration: benpi o okosu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Constipating/ˈkɒn.stɪ.peɪ.tɪŋ/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"その薬は便秘を起こしやすいです。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Causing or tending to cause constipation or difficulty in evacuating the bowels.

    "Certain medications like strong painkillers can be highly constipating."
As verb
  1. 1

    Present participle of constipate; causing bowel contents to become dense and difficult to pass.

    "The doctor warned that eating too many refined grains without fiber was constipating her system."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the late Middle English verb 'constipate', originating from the Latin 'constipatus', past participle of 'constipare', meaning 'to crowd together or compress'. The medical sense relating to bowel movements developed in the 17th century through the notion of congestion or compaction within the intestines.

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