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Tenesmus: Straining, especially long-continued, ineffectual and painful straining, at stool or in urination.
Straining at stool is called rectal tenesmus; straining at urination is called vesical tenesmus.
Tenesmus is the feeling that you constantly need to pass stools, even though your bowels are already empty. It may involve straining, pain, and cramping ...
List of 52 disease causes of Tenesmus, patient stories, diagnostic guides, medical books excerpts online about Tenesmus. Diagnostic checklist, medical tests ...
n. A painfully urgent but ineffectual attempt to urinate or defecate. [Medieval Latin tēnesmus , variant of Latin tēnesmos , from Greek teinesmos , from teinein ...
tenesmus /te·nes·mus/ (tĕ-nez´mus) straining, especially ineffectual and painful straining at stool or urination.tenes´mic. te·nes·mus (t-n z m s)
noun Pathology . a straining to urinate or defecate, without the ability to do so. Origin: 1520–30; < Medieval Latin, variant of Latin tēnesmos < Greek teinesmós ...