What's the difference between bloating and constipation?

Bloating


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bloat

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thorny issues of racism on the catwalk, of the impact of fashion on our relationship with food, of the decreasing relevance of the traditional catwalk show in the digital age, and of the bloated size of the fashion industry are the topics engrossing the front row.
  • (2) Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction is a disorder of gut motility resulting in severe abdominal pain, bloating, nausea, and vomiting after eating.
  • (3) Among those women who complained of side-effects, significantly more in group B complained of headaches and a bloated abdomen.
  • (4) Erythromycin also induced symptoms of upper abdominal pain, bloating, and nausea.
  • (5) Clinical parameters were: abdominal pain, bloating and bowel frequency.
  • (6) Moreover, the gass bloat syndrome seen with the Nissen fundoplication has not been encountered.
  • (7) In an interview with the Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins in February 2014, when he was chairman of the Commons culture, media and sport select committee, Whittingdale said: “The BBC is the most wasteful, bloated organisation on the planet.” He said: “Chris Patten [the BBC Trust’s former chairman] used to make jokes about the army of the People’s Republic of China being the organisation that’s the closest he’s encountered to the BBC: it is just huge numbers of people, many of whom don’t appear to be doing anything.” On Thursday, Whittingdale will unveil a green paper on the future of the BBC that sets a demanding agenda before the renegotiation of the corporation’s royal charter.
  • (8) Infected patients were more likely to complain of abdominal bloating.
  • (9) After this operation symptoms such as dysphagia, inability to belch and vomit, and gas bloating are frequently reported in the literature.
  • (10) But the British prime minister oozed schadenfreude with the result, received strong support from the Germans, the Dutch and the Scandinavians and looked pleased with the stalemate, portraying himself as the scourge of bloated Brussels, the guardian of the British and the European taxpayer.
  • (11) Almost all adverse experiences, as reported by 56 to 76% of patients on acarbose vs 32 to 37% of patients on placebo, were related to the digestive system and included diarrhoea, flatulence, bloating and nausea.
  • (12) The goats vagotomized dorsally showed an increase in body weight and decrease in volume of feces accompanied with repeated bloat.
  • (13) Cookery programmes bloat the television schedules, cookbooks strain the bookshop tables, celebrity chefs hawk their own brands of weird mince pies ( Heston Blumenthal ) or bronze-moulded pasta ( Jamie Oliver ) in the supermarkets, and cooks in super-expensive restaurants from Chicago to Copenhagen are the subject of hagiographic profiles in serious magazines and newspapers.
  • (14) Anti-frothing agents were used in sheep before cattle to treat acute legume bloat.
  • (15) The use of wood-fire smoke for bloating Trachurus did not change its nitrosoamines content at all.
  • (16) Among the improved patients, one experienced a transient gas-bloat syndrome.
  • (17) Instead of displaying an intense fear of obesity and a distorted body image, patients more commonly attributed poor food intake to abdominal bloating.
  • (18) James Criswell said he appreciated Carson’s goal of eliminating “a bunch of government bloated spending”.
  • (19) All the current evidence accumulated from experiments with sheep supports the hypothesis that death due to legume bloat is caused by acute neural, respiratory, and cardiovascular insult resulting from the effect of the distended rumen on thoracic viscera, diaphragm, intercostal muscles, and the abdominal vena cava.
  • (20) Microbial and fermentation changes in the rumen in monensin- and lasalocid-fed cattle grazing bloat-provocative alfalfa pasture were studied using genetically bloat-susceptible, ruminally-cannulated adult cattle.

Constipation


Definition:

  • (n.) Act of crowding anything into a less compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.
  • (n.) A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces; costiveness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In conclusion, abdominal Marlex-mesh rectopexy can be recommended as safe and effective treatment for rectal prolapse, despite some patients developing constipation and some remaining incontinent.
  • (2) In an open, prospectively randomised, parallel group study, 124 patients with a history of constipation for more than three weeks were treated with either 15 ml bd of lactulose (increasing to 60 ml daily if necessary) or one sachet bd of ispaghula.
  • (3) In general patients with diarrhoea were more sensitive to stimuli than those with constipation.
  • (4) Pelvic floor location and mobility did not differ between controls and constipated patients.
  • (5) Chronic constipation is a very frequent disease in western countries but fibres can often solve the problem.
  • (6) Pancreatic polypeptide release was reduced in patients with slow transit constipation, but increased in those with functional diarrhoea.
  • (7) Our results showed that a lower percentage of normal subjects and a lower percentage of constipated patients were able to pass a 1.8 cm incompressible sphere compared with a 50 ml deformable balloon, although constipated patients found it more difficult than normal subjects to expel both types of simulated stool.
  • (8) Two kinds of radiopaque pellets were ingested as markers to determine GITT in 60 normal subjects, 7 patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), 10 patients with idiopathic constipation (IC) and 8 patients with other diseases.
  • (9) There was a history of facial edema and constipation, which have been managed with "Kanpo medicine (Chinese medicine)" and laxatives for several years.
  • (10) A 58-year-old man complained of dull left lower quadrant pain and constipation.
  • (11) The irritable colon syndrome comprises two predominant symptom patterns -- "spastic colon" with pain and constipation, and painless "nervous diarrhea".
  • (12) There seems no doubt that following rectopexy there is an increased tendency to constipation.
  • (13) The constipated group required a greater degree of rectal distension than control subjects to induce rectal contractions, anal relaxation and a desire to defaecate.
  • (14) The effect of Plantago ovata on patients with chronic constipation (CC) with or without irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has been assessed by a double blind study comprising 20 patients with CC of which 10 had associated IBS.
  • (15) Certain forms of severe constipation, unresponsive to medical treatment and classified as "idiopathic", have been thought to be anatomical anomalies due to anterior-displacement of the anus.
  • (16) Those symptoms occurring more frequently in PD patients than in controls included abnormal salivation, dysphagia, nausea, constipation, and defecatory dysfunction.
  • (17) Transit time is shortened in patients with diarrhea, lengthened in patients with constipation.
  • (18) Patient beliefs that can block pain management include beliefs about self-concept and the aging process; the patient role; health professionals; pain; and consequences of treatment, including addiction, xerostomia, falls, constipation, and sexual and personality problems.
  • (19) By convention, people with simple constipation are not usually included in this group of patients.
  • (20) The incidence of systemic symptoms like fever and anorexia, alternating diarrhoea and constipation, peritoneal and lymph node involvements and associated pulmonary lesions were less frequently observed.

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