strangury

[ strang-gyuh-ree ]

noun

, Pathology.

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

strangury

/ ˈstræŋɡjʊrɪ /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of strangury¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin strangūria < Greek strangouríā, equivalent to strang ( ós ) flowing drop by drop + oûr ( on ) urine + -ia -y ³

Word History and Origins

Origin of strangury¹

C14: from Latin strangūria, from Greek, from stranx a drop squeezed out + ouron urine

Example Sentences

Suffering under a severe strangury, he was starved and tormented with all the cruel ingenuity of the Inquisition, and interrogated at intervals, without his resolution giving way.

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

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

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