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Constipation vs Consumption - What's the difference?

constipation | consumption |

As nouns the difference between constipation and consumption

is that constipation is constipation while consumption is the act of consuming something.

constipation

English

(wikipedia constipation)

Noun

  • Act of crowding anything into a lesser compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.
  • A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces; costiveness.

    • See also

    consumption

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act of consuming something.
    • The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
  • The amount consumed.
    • gross national consumption
  • (pathology) The wasting-away of the human body through disease.
  • (senseid)(pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis.

    • Derived terms

    * autoconsumption, self-consumption. * conspicuous consumption.

    Related terms

    * consumer

    See also

    (Wikipedia)