costiveness

He sat long partly because of a costiveness that seven Gringe tablets had so far done nothing to ease.

In Sumatra, pounded seeds, burned with charcoal, are applied around the navel for costiveness.

Spells of weakness, of costiveness.

A cathartic remedy will palliate the costiveness which frequently follows the use of cathartic remedies.

Constipation (also known as costiveness or dyschezia) refers to bowel movements that are infrequent or hard to pass.

Of the grossest self-induced costiveness it has ever been my privilege to see, caused by a frantic indulgence in Peruvian bark - self-administered Peruvian bark.

God has seen fit to subject chickens to the most loathsome diseases in the world--pip, gapes, costiveness, diarrhea, distemper, asthma, catarrh, apoplexy, cholera, lime legs, canker and many others.

But then again, he said (his mind changing direction), there was the physical aspect to be considered: if costiveness could affect a man's courage, how much more might an adverse phase of the moon affect a woman's?

She was looking well, physically well, he observed; the pure complexion often associated with pregnancy gave her a fine brilliance - clearly there was none of the costiveness which was to be feared in that interesting state.