(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.
Facies
Definition:
(n.) The anterior part of the head; the face.
(n.) The general aspect or habit of a species, or group of species, esp. with reference to its adaptation to its environment.
(n.) The face of a bird, or the front of the head, excluding the bill.
Example Sentences:
(1) The observed clinical findings include scarring of the face and hands (83.7%), hyperpigmentation (65%), hypertrichosis (44.8%), pinched facies (40.1%), painless arthritis (70.2%), small hands (66.6%), sensory shading (60.6%), myotonia (37.9%), cogwheeling (41.9%), enlarged thyroid (34.9%), and enlarged liver (4.8%).
(2) His maternal uncle is severely retarded and has similar dysmorphic facies.
(3) The presence of flat feet and excessive laxity of the joints, associated with the characteristic facies, macro-orchidism, and behavior, justifies a referral for developmental and genetic evaluation.
(4) Alagille syndrome is characterized by the association of chronic cholestasis with a paucity of interlobular bile ducts and a distinctive facies together with cardiovascular, skeletal and eye abnormalities.
(5) "There is a prima facie case for charging Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, William Hague and David Cameron with waging aggressive war against Iraq," Griffin said.
(6) On five occasions, over a period of four years, she became severely depressed and had acne, amenorrhea, hirsuties and moon facies.
(7) Trisomy C is documented in a 17-hour-old full-term male infant with bilateral diffuse renal dysplasia, Potter facies, pulmonary hypoplasia and other congenital anomalies.
(8) A female infant with the "femoral hypoplasia-unusual facies" syndrome is presented.
(9) The essential signs are a dysmorphic facies with flattening of the central region of the face, humeroradial synostosis with flexed attitude of the upper limbs and swelling of the distal interphalangeal and metacarpophalangeal articulations.
(10) Review of the reported cases of ring chromosome 15 defines a malformation syndrome with a characteristic facies related to deletion of the 15q26.2----qter region.
(11) Homogenates of cultured skin fibroblasts from a non-ambulatory, 20-year-old male with cherry-red spots, corneal clouding, seizures, mental retardation, dysostosis multiplex, dwarfism, coarse facies and loss of vision, originally described by Goldberg et al.
(12) In the initial descriptions of the elfin-facies-syndrome by Williams and Beuren, supravalvular aortic stenosis was considered to be a constant feature of the syndrome, combined with retardation of mental and physical development, dentition anomalies and the peculiar face.
(13) A mother and son are described with unusual facies, patent ductus arteriosus, fusion of distal interphalangeal joints and mild learning difficulties.
(14) The female infant presented a malformation syndrome with coarse facies including cleft lip and palate, distal limb hypoplasia, a diaphragmatic defect, and excessive body hair, most pronounced on the face.
(15) Three types were considered: type A = calcanei with two articular facets for the talar head, with four subtypes; type B = calcanei with one articular facet for the talar head, and two subtypes, and type C = unique articular facies in the superior surface of the calcaneus for the talus.
(16) The clinical findings included microcephaly, growth retardation, retarded bone age and an unusual facies.
(17) Two brothers, aged 40 and 38 years, suffered from dysplastic features, coarse facies, bone and skeletal abnormalities, deformities of spine, and joint impairments.
(18) This is characterized by a distinctive coarse facies and dysostosis multiplex.
(19) The concept of lipid and peptide association would suggest prima facie differential molecular weights as a factor in the observed electrophoretic and chromatographic heterogeneity.
(20) SLOS is a syndrome of multiple congenital anomalies with mental and growth retardation, unusual facies, genito-urinary and hand and foot abnormalities inherited as an autosomal recessive trait.