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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Goldsmith had been for some time subject to attacks of strangury; and having before experienced relief from James's powders, had again recourse to that popular medicine.
From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis
Experiments are wanting to introduce some acrid application into practice instead of cantharides, which might not induce the strangury.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
The appetite varies, though it is commonly good; the intestinal evacuations, and the menstrual discharges, are regular; the urine is turbid, and so small in quantity as sometimes to produce strangury.
From Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart by Warren, John Collins
The mucus of the bladder is seen in the urine, when cantharides have been used, either internally or externally, in such doses as to induce the strangury.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
She acquired this mania after an attempt at dilatation of the urethra in the relief of an obstinate case of strangury.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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