Tenesmus Use: “Can I please use your bathroom? I have a serious case of tenesmus.” Tenesmus is the uncomfortable feeling one has when needing to poop. It also refers to the feeling of having not emptied the bowel fully or the need to strain to do so. To put it more simply, tenesmus is a distressing but ineffectual urge to evacuate the rectum or bladder. The word, appropriately, comes to us from the Greek “teinesmos” which means “to stretch” or “to strain”
Posted on: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 01:10:55 +0000