strangury
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of strangury
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin strangūria < Greek strangouríā, equivalent to strang ( ós ) flowing drop by drop + oûr ( on ) urine + -ia -y 3
Example Sentences
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Pain upon urination and strangury was due to inflammation of the peritoneal coat of the bladder, in which a noticeable irritation was produced by slight distention as well as by contraction of the bladder.
From Appendicitis by John Henry Tilden
A certain amount of urinary irritation, showing itself sometimes in strangury, sometimes in complete retention, occasionally follows this operation.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
Diavolo!" as your Dr. Rabelais has it,—answers the iconoclast,—"what is that to me and my colic, to me and my strangury?
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Tresham, lurking about the city, and frequently shifting his quarters, was apprehended soon after, and having confessed the whole matter, died of the strangury, in the Tower.
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe
This kind of strangury recurs by stated periods, and sometimes arises to so great a degree, that convulsion or temporary madness terminates each period of it.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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