tenesmus: Meaning and Definition of

te•nes•mus

Pronunciation: (tu-nez'mus, -nes'-), [key]
— n. Pathol.
  1. a straining to urinate or defecate, without the ability to do so.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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