What's the difference between constipated and costive?

Constipated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Constipate

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.

Costive


Definition:

  • (a.) Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.
  • (a.) Reserved; formal; close; cold.
  • (a.) Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Without financial power or overt political affiliations, young people are too often ignored in this costive age.
  • (2) And it is of course intrinsic to femininity that it is costive or denying to a degree, so the saying can become radical in itself, but only from a point of view of personal honesty.
  • (3) Children with encopresis (costiveness) have a social problem, and (BFB) offers them a valid therapeutic alternative.

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