Definition of Tenesmos
||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.
||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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- a painfully urgent need to urinate of defecate that results in little being passed
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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