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tenesmus

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8 lettersPronunciation /tɪˈnɛz.məs/Part of speech nounSorted eemnsstuStarts with TEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A painful feeling of needing to empty the bowel or bladder when little passes.

Word origin

Borrowing from Medieval Latin tēnesmus, from Ancient Greek τεινεσμός (teinesmós, “vain endeavor to evacuate”), from τείνω (teínō, “to stretch, to pull tight”) + -εσμός (-esmós, nominal suffix).

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  • The general complaints of disease among us, were a dizziness in the head, great weakness of the joints, and violent tenesmus, most of us having had no evacuation by stool since we left the ship.

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