Sentence examples for constipated in from inspiring English sources

And that people who dream – or don't dream in a way they can often remember when they wake up – are mentally constipated in some way.

In all three matches so far England have looked fatally constipated in the middle overs against Australia's spinners, with Glenn Maxwell, Michael Clarke and Xavier Doherty allowed to bowl 31 overs for 114 runs between them in Sydney and Brisbane.

Today's public servant is gaffe-phobic, linguistically constipated, mortgaged in spirit to this lobby or that.

The prevalence of constipation increases with age: in over 65 year-old population studies, 26%% of women compared to 16%% of men considered themselves to be constipated, while in a 84 year-old subgroup of patients, the proportion of sufferers increased to 34%% in women and 26%% in men, thus showing that age apparently leads to a substantial levelling between sexes [ 12, 13].

However, two recent reviews concluded that despite increasing efforts on including the elderly in RCTs, most studies on the use of laxatives in constipated older adults provide limited evidence for small sample size and methodology biases [ 57, 62].

The increased abundance of methanogens such as Methanobrevibacter in harder stools confirms previous reports of elevated methane production in constipated individuals.

We suggest that achalasia patients be asked about the history of constipation and vice versa constipated patients for disorders in swallowing.

Mr Levack told the committee that bureaucracy was causing many projects to "get stuck in the constipated public sector procurement system".

The efficacy of prucalopride has also been tested short term in the constipated older ones [ 88].

The device agreement for slow colonic transit was 88%, with good correlation between WMC and ROM in elderly patients, suggesting that the WMC was a useful diagnostic device of delayed colonic transit in elderly constipated patients.

It seems important to conduct head-to-head comparison trials with these agents in the future and also to determine if linaclotide is more efficacious in certain constipated individuals than are currently available laxatives.