Tenesmus

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A painfully urgent but ineffectual attempt to urinate or defecate.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The painful and often ineffectual straining to relieve the bowels
  • n. a painfully urgent need to urinate or defecate that results in little being passed
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In medicine, a continual inclination to void the contents of the bowels or bladder, accompanied by straining, but with little or no discharge.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. painful spasm of the anal sphincter along with an urgent desire to defecate without the significant production of feces; associated with irritable bowel syndrome
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    muscle spasm    cramp    spasm   
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