strangury

American  

[strang-gyuh-ree] / ˈstræŋ gyə ri /

noun

Pathology.

1. painful urination in which the urine is emitted drop by drop owing to muscle spasms of the urethra or urinary bladder.

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strangury British  

/ ˈstræŋɡjʊrɪ /

noun

1. pathol painful excretion of urine, drop by drop, caused by muscular spasms of the urinary tract

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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

In irritant poisoning also there is generally severe abdominal pain—not so much colicky and paroxysmal as constant and burning; the stools are not so copious as in cholera, and they do not possess the rice-water aspect, but are rather dark, bloody, and fetid, and are voided with tenesmus or with heat in the anus; and even when the urine is suppressed it is less persistently and completely so than in cholera, and attempts to void it are attended with vesical tenesmus and strangury.

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Cantharides has been recommended, and it is stated that when strangury is produced the whoop will cease; we should consider this rather severe treatment.

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Dysuria—i.e. difficult urination, strangury—may have several causes.

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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.

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He considered it peculiarly adapted to all such cases if they were attended by strangury, or painful and difficult urination.

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