Tenezmai

Term

Urgent, painful, frequent urge to defecate, e.g. in cases of proctitis, dysentery. This is one of the symptoms of gastrointestinal motility disorder.

Source | Glossary of Most Commonly Used Biomedical Terms and Concepts | Lithuanian University of Health Sciences | Academician Professor Antanas Praškevičius, Professor Laima Ivanovienė