tenesmus

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rectal tenesmus

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).

tenesmus (countable and uncountable, plural tenesmuses)

(medicine) A continual or recurrent but ineffectual inclination to evacuate the bowels, caused by disorder of the rectum or other illness.
- 1790, William Bligh, A Narrative of the Mutiny:
  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.

inclination to evacuate the bowels

“tenesmus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“tenesmus”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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

tēnesmus m (genitive tēnesmī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

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