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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No pain is felt during vehement voluntary exertion; as in cold fits of ague, labour-pains, strangury, tenesmus, vomiting, restlessness in fevers, convulsion of a wounded muscle.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Thus a stone at the neck of the bladder, if its stimulus is not very great, only induces the pain of strangury at the glans penis.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Was obliged to urinate three times in the space of four hours, but only a small quantity each time; otherwise she only urinated once during the same length of time and with strangury.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
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
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 Erasmus Darwin
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