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What is a tenesmus?

What is a tenesmus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (pathology) The painful and often ineffectual straining to relieve the bowels
  2. (pathology) a painfully urgent need to urinate or defecate that results in little being passed
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Irritant poisons give rise to pain in the stomach and bowels, faintness and sickness, and purging with tenesmus.
Patients may have nausea, vomiting, dizziness, tenesmus and low-grade fever.
Clinical illness is characterized by diarrhea, fever, nausea, vomiting cramps and tenesmus.
Acute bacillary dysentery is characterized accompanied by fever, abdominal cramps and tenesmus.
An illness of variable severity characterised by diarrhoea, fever, nausea, cramps and tenesmus.
If the disposition to tenesmus be troublesome, a small injection of starch and opium will afford relief.

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