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Block
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Blockage or cessation of flow. The term block occurs in the terminology of signs and pathomechanisms:
- blockage of normal discharge from the body, as in menstrual block (amenorrhea), fecal block (constipation), and dribbling urinary block (retention of urine).
- blockage or disturbance of the pathways of qì as in qì block. See also stoppage.