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Definition of Tenesmus
1. Noun. Painful spasm of the anal sphincter along with an urgent desire to defecate without the significant production of feces; associated with irritable bowel syndrome.
Definition of Tenesmus
1. n. An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum.
Definition of Tenesmus
1. Noun. The painful and often ineffectual straining to relieve the bowels ¹
2. Noun. a painfully urgent need to urinate or defecate that results in little being passed ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tenesmus
1. an urgent but ineffectual effort to defecate or urinate [n -ES] : TENESMIC [adj]
Medical Definition of Tenesmus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenesmus
Literary usage of Tenesmus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diagnostics of internal medicine: A Clinical Treatise Upon the by Glentworth Reeve Butler (1906)
"Associated with vesical tenesmus it is indicative of a calculus in the urinary
bladder or ... Rectal tenesmus may also be caused by impacted faeces, worms, ..."
2. Thirty-five Years in the East: Adventures, Discoveries, Experiements, and by John Martin Honigberger (1852)
"tenesmus. p. Talc, alb., diarrhoea, o. N., o. with emaciation. Tale, nigr., purgings.
... PR The white internal part of this root removed tenesmus. 12 (im«. ..."
3. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1888)
"Paroxysms of renal tenesmus may also be excited in a most striking manner by ...
The attacks of renal tenesmus brought on by either of these procedures may ..."
4. The Diagnostics of Internal Medicine: A Clinical Treatise Upon the by Glentworth Reeve Butler (1901)
"Rectal tenesmus may also be caused by impacted faeces, worms, or a foreign body
in the rectum, hemorrhoids, and proctitis. It is very commonly present in ..."
5. Clinical Symptomatology: With Special Reference to Life-threatening Symptoms by Alois Pick, Adolf Franz Hecht (1911)
"The tenesmus must be combated with opium or belladonna suppositories. ...
OTHER DISEASES OF THE INTESTINES LEADING TO tenesmus tenesmus is also a symptom in ..."
6. Clinical Symptomatology: With Special Reference to Life-threatening Symptoms by Alois Pick, Adolf Franz Hecht (1911)
"The tenesmus must be combated with opium or belladonna suppositories. ...
OTHER DISEASES OF THE INTESTINES LEADING TO tenesmus tenesmus is also a symptom in ..."
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