fecal impaction

1. 1.

   accumulation of hardened feces in the rectum or lower colon which the person cannot move

   Broaderconstipation

Questions about fecal impaction

What does fecal impaction mean?

fecal impaction means "accumulation of hardened feces in the rectum or lower colon which the person cannot move".

Is fecal impaction a common word?

fecal impaction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.