Definition of Tenesmic

1. a. Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterized by tenesmus.

Definition of Tenesmic

1. Adjective. (medicine) Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterized by tenesmus. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tenesmic

1. tenesmus [adj] - See also: tenesmus

Medical Definition of Tenesmic

1. Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterised by tenesmus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenesmic

teneliximab
tenement
tenement district
tenement house
tenemental
tenementary
tenementlike
tenements
tenendum
tenendums
tenent
tenents
teneral
tenerity
tenes
tenesmic (current term)
tenesmuses
tenet
tenets
tenfold
tenfoldness
tenfolds
tengchongite
tenge
tenges
tengu
tengus
tenia
tenia choroidea

Literary usage of Tenesmic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Females and Their Diseases: A Series of Letters to His Class by Charles Delucena Meigs (1848)
"The tenesmic power is either wholly annulled, or so weakened, that it is nearly nullified by that attitude. Dr. Hunter's patient was placed in this position ..."

2. Obstetrics: The Science and the Art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1856)
"The urine and stool are generally expelled pretty soon after the commencement of the tenesmic pains of labor ; but in some patients, the first signs of ..."

3. Woman; Her Diseases and Remedies: A Series of Letters to His Class by Charles Delucena Meigs (1851)
"The tenesmic power is either wholly annulled, or so weakened that it is nearly nullified by that attitude. Dr. Hunter's patient was placed in this position, ..."

4. Obstetrics, the science and the art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1867)
"Just as I had raised it partially up, there came on a violent tenesmic ... As soon as the bladder was emptied, the singular, extraordinary tenesmic efforts ..."

5. The British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical (1846)
"We perfectly agree with Dr. Meigs that this mode of preventing the " tenesmic power" is preferable to bleeding "ad deliquium," as recommended by Dewees. ..."

6. A Text-book of Alkaloidal Therapeutics by William Francis Waugh, Wallace C. Abbott, Ephraim Menahhem Epstein (1904)
"Atony of reproductive organs with impaired function; uterine enlargement, uterine or cervical leucorrhea; difficult tenesmic urination; dragging in ..."

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