What's the difference between constipated and defecate?
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.
Defecate
Definition:
(a.) Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.
(v. t.) To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine.
(v. t.) To free from extraneous or polluting matter; to clear; to purify, as from that which materializes.
(v. i.) To become clear, pure, or free.
(v. i.) To void excrement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stool weights, defecation frequencies, and transit times in this group are much closer to those of westernized whites than to rural blacks.
(2) Some 300 million women and girls are forced to defecate outside, exposed not only to the risks of disease and bacterial infection, but also harassment and assault by men.
(3) Giant migrating contractions associated with defecation were initiated by the highest dose of vasopressin.
(4) Gastrointestinal transit time, frequency of defecation, stool weight, and stool consistency were studied in 12 subjects who were each given fiber supplements containing wheat bran, psyllium gum, a combination of wheat bran and psyllium gum, or a low-fiber control for 2 weeks.
(5) The authors review the literature and their personal experience about the systematic exploration of defecation disorders by anorectal manometry and colpocystodefecography.
(6) A corresponding improvement in handwashing practices before preparing food was noted, although no improvement was observed for defecation and waste disposal practices.
(7) No significant differences were noted between taurine and control groups, either before or after taurine administration or before or after the step-change in inhibition demand, with respect to defecation in the test chamber, daily fluid consumption, body weight or total responses.
(8) and duration of bloodmeal, defecation and first fed of each stage) had a negative influence.
(9) Records from 20 patients on whom defecography and electromyography were performed simultaneously because of defecation disorders were analyzed.
(10) In the open field PCA groups showed hypoactivity and increased defecation up to 30 days after drug administration.
(11) We already knew that water provision alone couldn’t break the cycle of faecal-oral disease transmission because open defecation, poor hygiene, and poorly built latrines are the main sources of faecal contamination in the environment and water, and the real reasons why diarrhoeal diseases persist despite advances in water provision.
(12) Capsaicin-sensitive afferents may be involved in the initiation of certain forms of reflex defecation, although capsaicin-resistant mechanisms are capable of activating the normal excretory function.
(13) The effect of subdiaphragmatic vagotomy on food intake and defecation was studied in guinea pigs.
(14) During 5 days of reflex training the rats of both strains retained a high level of defecation until the end of the test that pointed at the emotional strain unceasing in spite of the automatization of the reflex.
(15) Almost half of India's 1.25 billion people currently defecate in the open.
(16) This study shows that abnormal defecation dynamics and the severity of constipation are predictors for persistence of chronic constipation and encopresis.
(17) Static anal manometry has proved itself a reliable, reproducible and objective assessment of sphincter function in the investigation of disorders of defecation and continence.
(18) The present experiment investigated the opposite effects of synthetic alpha-MSH and Melatonin on acquisition and extinction of a passive avoidance response (PAR) and on emotionality, as indexed by defecation, in the PA box.
(19) Five to 10 min after the drug administration, the camels at both dosages showed lacrimation, salivation, trembling, restlessness, frequent urination and defecation, followed by diarrhea.
(20) The effect of eating on defecation behaviour was investigated in four 20-30 kg pigs.