Constipation: Multimedia

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Further Reading

Keywords

hard stool, constipation, constipation treatment, constipation causes, constipation symptoms, fecal impaction, irregular bowel movement, straining, colonic functional disorder, anorectal functional disorder, functional constipation, pain on defecation, rectal bleeding, thrombosed hemorrhoids, intussusception, irritable bowel syndrome, idiopathic slow transit constipation, chronic intestinal obstruction, rectal outletobstruction, anismus, solitary rectal ulcer, rectocele, weak pelvic floor, Hirschsprung disease

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