Usually means: Straining sensation during bowel movements.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word tenesmus:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. tenesmus: Merriam-Webster
  2. tenesmus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tenesmus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tenesmus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tenesmus: Vocabulary.com
  6. tenesmus: Wordnik
  7. tenesmus: Wiktionary
  8. tenesmus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tenesmus: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. tenesmus: Dictionary.com
  11. Tenesmus (disambiguation), Tenesmus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Tenesmus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. tenesmus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. tenesmus: Rhymezone
  15. Tenesmus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. tenesmus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. tenesmus: FreeDictionary.org
  18. tenesmus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. tenesmus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. tenesmus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Tenesmus: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Tenesmus: Merck Manuals
  5. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Tenesmus: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  9. tenesmus: Medical dictionary
  10. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  11. Inflammatory Bowel Disease Glossary (No longer online)
  12. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  13. Tenesmus: Drug Medical Dictionary
  14. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tenesmus: A Word A Day

Definitions from Wiktionary (tenesmus)

noun:  (medicine) A continual or recurrent but ineffectual inclination to evacuate the bowels, caused by disorder of the rectum or other illness.

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