Definitions for tenesmuses

tenesmuses te·nes·mus

Spelling: [tuh-nez-muh s, -nes-]
IPA: /təˈnɛz məs, -ˈnɛs-/

Tenesmuses is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 211 anagrams from letters in tenesmuses (eeemnssstu).

Definitions for tenesmuses

noun

  1. a straining to urinate or defecate, without the ability to do so.
  2. a straining to urinate or defecate, without the ability to do so.

Origin of tenesmuses

1520-30; Medieval Latin, variant of Latin tēnesmos Greek teinesmós, equivalent to teín(ein) to stretch + -esmos noun suffix

Examples for tenesmuses

Irritant poisons give rise to pain in the stomach and bowels, faintness and sickness, and purging with tenesmus.

A small quantity of this is passed with tenesmus at short intervals.

The large watery stools and the absence of tenesmus mark the difference between diarrhoea and dysentery.

If the large intestine is involved, the diarrhoea is accompanied with tenesmus.

tenesmus, a sense of weight and of a body present in the bowel, are experienced.

The bowels are constipated—at times so much so as to amount to obstruction—or, again, diarrhoea and tenesmus may be present.

The tenesmus (cupiditas egerendi) is a more distressing, and certainly more distinctive, sign of dysentery.

In diarrhœa there is no fever or tenesmus, or pain before the stools, as in dysentery.

Blood mixed with mucus and tenesmus accompany inflammation low down.

If the disposition to tenesmus be troublesome, a small injection of starch and opium will afford relief.

If the disposition to tenesmus be troublesome, a small injection of starch and opium will afford relief.

Irritant poisons give rise to pain in the stomach and bowels, faintness and sickness, and purging with tenesmus.

The bowels are constipated—at times so much so as to amount to obstruction—or, again, diarrhoea and tenesmus may be present.

The tenesmus (cupiditas egerendi) is a more distressing, and certainly more distinctive, sign of dysentery.

If the large intestine is involved, the diarrhoea is accompanied with tenesmus.

tenesmus, a sense of weight and of a body present in the bowel, are experienced.

In diarrhœa there is no fever or tenesmus, or pain before the stools, as in dysentery.

The large watery stools and the absence of tenesmus mark the difference between diarrhoea and dysentery.

Blood mixed with mucus and tenesmus accompany inflammation low down.

A small quantity of this is passed with tenesmus at short intervals.

Word Value for tenesmuses
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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