dysuria

American  

[dis-yoo-ree-uh, dis-yoor-ee-uh] / ˌdɪs yʊˈri ə, dɪsˈyʊər i ə /

noun

Pathology.

1. difficult or painful urination.

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dysuria British  

/ dɪsˈjʊərɪə /

noun

1. difficult or painful urination

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Other Word Forms

• dysuric adjective

Etymology

Origin of dysuria

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from New Latin, from Greek dysouríā; see dys-, ur- ¹, -ia; replacing earlier dysury, Middle English dissure, dissuria, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin, from Greek

Example Sentences

Symptoms.—Burning pain and constriction in throat and gullet, pain and tenderness of stomach and bowels, intense thirst, nausea, vomiting, purging and tenesmus, with bloody stools, dysuria, cold skin, and feeble and irregular pulse.

From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )

In the later repression the pleasure in the enuresis as well as in the being taken up by the mother becomes a dysuria psychica.

From Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study by Sadger, J.

We first hear of the dysuria from which he suffered, in 1548.

From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by Symonds, John Addington

All the symptoms of the disease, the vesical pains, the dysuria, the excretion of sand, the ammoniacal odor, etc., rapidly disappear under the influence of the medicine.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

In a few cases this adhesion appeared to me to be the cause of the dysuria, which disappeared after the separation of the labia from one another.”

From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles