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Definition of Constipating
1. constipate [v] - See also: constipate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Constipating
Literary usage of Constipating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the digestive organs: With Special Reference to Their Diagnosis by Charles Dettie Aaron (1921)
"constipating DIET. A constipating diet is one which will not stimulate ...
A constipating diet, which in effect is equivalent to a non-irritating diet, ..."
2. Eating for Health and Efficiency by Rasmus Larssen Alsaker (1917)
"CHAPTER 23 constipating FOODS WE shall begin by quoting an important part from
... There are many foods that are not in themselves constipating, but their ..."
3. Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics by Herbert Swift Carter, Paul Edward Howe, Howard Harris Mason (1921)
"constipating Diet.—For use after rectal and low intestinal operations. First four
days applicable to hemorrhoids and fistula-in-ano cases. ..."
4. Diet lists of the Presbyterian hospital, New York city by Herbert Swift Carter (1919)
"constipating DIET Applicable to resection of lower ileum, colon, sigmoid and rectum.
First four days applicable to hemorrhoids and fistula in ano cases. ..."
5. How Nature Cures: Comprising a New System of Hygiene; Also the Natural Food by Emmet Densmore (1892)
"... which undoubtedly have to do with the constipating tendencies of a cereal diet.
The first law of the animal economy is to provide for nutrition. ..."
6. New York Dissector: Quarterly Journal of Medicine, Surgery, Magnetism (1848)
"... while it is free from a constipating, and some other of their bad effects.
Administered with due regard to the stage of the disease, habits of life, ..."
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