NOUN
- painful spasm of the anal sphincter along with an urgent desire to defecate without the significant production of feces; associated with irritable bowel syndrome
How To Use tenesmus In A Sentence
- They seem to spread downwards from the throat into the stomach, and probably through the whole intestinal canal, beginning their course with cardialgia, and terminating it with tenesmus; and might perhaps be called an erysipelas of this mucous membrane. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
- This is followed almost immediately by various symptoms; more rapid breathing, lowered arterial pressure, faster heart-beat, vomiting, blood diarrhoea and rectal tenesmus. Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture
- In the first place, tenesmus, accompanied with pain, attacked many, but more especially children, and all who had not attained to puberty; and the most of these died. Of The Epidemics
- Patients may have nausea, vomiting, dizziness, tenesmus and low-grade fever.
- Samuel may not have noted tenesmus because there was nothing to report. A Furnace Afloat
- Symptoms typically include rectal discomfort, tenesmus, and constipation.
- Herophon was seized with an acute fever; alvine discharges at first were scanty, and attended with tenesmus; but afterwards they were passed of a thin, bilious character, and frequent; there was no sleep; urine black, and thin. Of The Epidemics
- In some men, this brought vomiting, but the most common reactions were waves of painful peristalsis in the gut, accompanied by tenesmus, a desire, but inability, to use the bathroom. A Furnace Afloat
- Want to definitely diagnose first, inside tenesmus and mucus then, diarrhea should be the problem of intestine way, personal think may be a chronic enteritis.
- Severe vomiting, diarrhoea, rectal tenesmus: unable to keep standing, she urinates under herself; the pupils are dilated, the eyes haggard; complete mind-blindness, near-total failure of reflexes, deep unconsciousness, breathing dyspneic, heart-beat faint and very fast, pulse barely perceptible; dead in thirty-six hours. Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture