Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Obstruction in an excretory or secretory canal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Constipation; also, constriction of the vessels or ducts.

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  • noun medicine, archaic constipation
  • noun medicine, archaic constriction of the vessels or ducts

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek. See stegnotic.

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