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tenesmus


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tenesmus  \Te*nes"mus\,  n.  [NL.,  fr  Gr  ?,  fr  ?  to  stretch:  cf 
  L.  tenesmos.]  (Med.) 
  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. 
 
  {Vesical  tenesmus},  a  similar  sensation  as  to  the  evacuation 
  of  urine,  referred  to  the  region  of  the  bladder. 




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