tenesmus

[ tuh-nez-muhs, -nes- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Pathology.

tenesmus

/ -ˈnɛs-; tɪˈnɛzməs /

pathol an ineffective painful straining to empty the bowels in response to the sensation of a desire to defecate, without producing a significant quantity of faeces

1520–30; < Medieval Latin, variant of Latin tēnesmos < Greek teinesmós, equivalent to teín ( ein ) to stretch + -esmos noun suffix

C16: from Medieval Latin, from Latin tēnesmos, from Greek teinesmos, from teinein to strain

This is called tenesmus, and the straining from it has frequently produced abortion.

Of tenesmus I happened to hear of but a single instance, though the Laplanders eat so much cheese and drink water.

To be used in alvine fluxes, to allay the irritation which occasions constant tenesmus.

A discharge of blood and mucus from the intestines attended with tenesmus.

In half an hour there was abdominal pain, diarrhœa, and tenesmus, and frequent painful micturition.

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