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tenesmuses

tenesmuses is the plural of tenesmus.

Meaning of tenesmus

Noun

tenesmus (countable and uncountable, plural tenesmuses)

  1. A continual or recurrent but ineffectual inclination to evacuate the bowels, caused by disorder of the rectum or other illness.
    • The general complaints of disease among us, were a dizziness in the head, great weakness of the joints, and violent tenesmus, most of us having had no evacuation by stool since we left the ship.1790, William Bligh, A Narrative of the Mutiny

Questions about tenesmuses

What is tenesmuses the plural of?
Tenesmuses is the plural of tenesmus.

Words near tenesmuses in the dictionary

  1. Tenesacas
  2. tenesi
  3. tenesmal
  4. tenesmic
  5. tenesmus
  6. tenesmuses
  7. tenet
  8. Tenetehara
  9. tenets
  10. teneurin
  11. teneurins

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