constipative
English
Etymology
constipate + -ive
Adjective
constipative (comparative more constipative, superlative most constipative)
- Causing constipation.
- 1842, Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, Caspar Bruchhausen, transl., Enchiridion Medicum: Or, Manual of the Practice of Medicine, page 56:
- Ipecacuanha is more antispasmodic, less acrid, and more constipative; hence it is fitter for irritable persons, inclined to spasms, and affected with diarrhœa.
- 2015, Robert Leigh, On Theriac to Piso, Attributed to Galen: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary, →ISBN, page 179:
- The constipative effect of opioids is well documented.
- Antonym: laxative
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