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tenesmus

 [tĕ-nez´mus]
ineffectual and painful straining at stool or urination. adj., adj tenes´mic.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

te·nes·mus

(te-nez'mŭs),
A painful spasm of the urogenital diaphragm with an urgent desire to evacuate the bowel or bladder, involuntary straining, and the passage of little fecal matter or urine.
[G. teinesmos, ineffectual effort to defecate, fr. teinō, to stretch]
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

tenesmus

(tə-nĕz′məs)
n.
A painfully urgent but ineffectual attempt to urinate or defecate.
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tenesmus

Painful spasm and productionless straining at stool
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

te·nes·mus

(tĕ-nez'mŭs)
A painful spasm of the anal sphincter with an urgent desire to evacuate the bowel or bladder, involuntary straining, and the passage of little fecal matter or urine.
[G. teinesmos, ineffectual effort to defecate, fr. teinō, to stretch]
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

tenesmus

A frequently recurring or continuous sense of wishing to empty the bowels. Tenesmus leads to ineffective straining and is a feature of the IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME, HAEMORRHOIDS, ULCERATIVE COLITIS, DYSENTERY, POLYPS in the RECTUM, PROLAPSE of the rectum and sometimes cancer of the rectum.
Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005

Tenesmus

Straining to urinate or defecate without being able to do so. Tenesmus is a characteristic feature of bacillary dysentery.
Mentioned in: Dysentery
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