(n.) An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Postoperative minor rectal bleeding and rectal tenesmus resolved in a few days.
(2) Tenesmus, dysuria, hematuria, and pollakiuria occurred in all dogs, but the severity of these signs diminished with time.
(3) The protozoon Blastocystis hominis may cause episodes of diarrhoea with abdominal pain, tenesmus, fever and eosinophilia.
(4) There were no instances of recurrence of hemorrhage, fistulas, perineal pain or tenesmus.
(5) Their clinical features included serious dyschesia demanding longer time and strength, tenesmus, and slender stool.
(6) Thirty-one patients (38 per cent) had ETAR for palliation: in this group rectal bleeding was abolished or improved in 66 per cent of patients, altered bowel habit (diarrhoea) corrected in 77 per cent of patients, faecal incontinence improved in 50 per cent of patients and rectal pain (including tenesmus) improved in 50 per cent of patients.
(7) For the nine patients who received 5-FU at the recommended dose level the median low counts were WBC 3.5 (2.2-4.0), HGB 10.3 (9.0-12.3), and PLT (x 1000) 167 (133-280), and the incidence of any grade greater than or equal to 3 toxicity was 22% diarrhea, 17% tenesmus, and 22% frequent bowel movements.
(8) Common clinical signs included hematuria, altered micturition (pollakiuria, dysuria, urinary incontinence), and tenesmus.
(9) At 6.4 months' follow-up, two patients had recurrent tenesmus and two required a colostomy.
(10) Other examples of pain which may be resistant to treatment with opioid analgesics are bladder and rectal tenesmus, pancreatic pain, and pain associated with decubitus ulcers or other superficial ulcers subjected to pressure or shearing forces.
(11) Blastocystis hominis may sometimes be found in feces in sufficient quantities to cause symptoms of diseases such as diarrhea abdominal pain, nausea, tenesmus, fever, itching and slight acidocytosis.
(12) It seemed that patients with severe side effects such as bladder tenesmus and urinary infection, have a long tumor-free period.
(13) The foremost perioperative consideration beyond the use of effective restraint is the management of tenesmus in horses with rectal tears or prolapses.
(14) Symptoms were tenesmus rectal urge, pain, thin feces and mucosanguinolent discharge.
(15) We describe the case of a woman with rectorrhagia and rectal tenesmus.
(16) A 42-yr-old woman with long-standing ulcerative colitis of the descending colon, sigmoid, and rectum presented with bloody diarrhea, tenesmus, and high fever.
(17) Five patients developed rectal bleeding, tenesmus, and increased frequency of stools, lasting up to 12 days.
(18) The most common symptoms were rectal bleeding (70%), mucus diarrhea (44%), constipation (22%), and tenesmus (19%).
(19) Tenesmus and obstipation began shortly after pelvic injury in 3 cats and 5 to 12 months after injury in the remaining cats.
(20) Three patients in each group were withdrawn because of clinical deterioration but both treatments produced significant clinical improvement with decreases in stool frequency and scores for urgency, bleeding and tenesmus.
Urgent
Definition:
(a.) Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.
Example Sentences:
(1) This case demonstrates that the manifestations may be delayed and that urgent surgical intervention may be lifesaving despite the precarious status of these patients.
(2) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(3) We are urgently investigating this incident with our supplier and ask customers to return this product to their local store."
(4) The patient presented urgently for Caesarean section, with fluid overload and worsening thrombocytopaenia.
(5) Their confidence in the practitioner's clinical judgment was greater in their care of nonurgent and urgent patients.
(6) The pope has written in his encyclical of the urgent need to reduce climate change gases.
(7) Zoellick was also clear that action was now urgently needed.
(8) The following year yet another Bank analyst wrote a report on BCCI entitled "Why action is now urgently required".
(9) And we owe [Hickox] better than that and all the people who do this work better than that.” The White House indicated that it was urgently reviewing the federal guidelines for returning healthcare workers, “recognising that these medical professionals’ selfless efforts to fight this disease on the front lines will be critical to bringing this epidemic under control, the only way to eliminate the risk of additional cases here at home”.
(10) The urgent endoscopy of the superior gastrointestinal haemorrhage carefully and quickly helps in clarifying the following questions: Is the patient going on bleeding?
(11) Close cooperation of ophthalmological departments with vitreoretinal centres and early performance of urgent surgery are the basic prerequisites of better functional results of PPV in EHE.
(12) "Ministers must urgently get behind a different approach to food and farming that delivers real sustainable solutions rather than peddling the snake oil that is GM ."
(13) Urinary frequency was normalized in 6 out of 16 (37.5%), urgency ceased in 6 out of 17 (35.7%) and urgent incontinence disappeared in 9 out of 14 (50%) patients.
(14) This issue should attract attention more urgently now in light of the deaths in Savar.
(15) Guide-wire fragments retained in the coronary artery system after PTCA are removed either immediately by means of catheter techniques or by urgent operation.
(16) Ownership is not the problem, affordable homes for people are what are urgently needed and will, it seems, need a new government.
(17) It is understood that counterterrorism police at Heathrow are urgently seeking a meeting with senior UKBA management over the missed alerts.
(18) Alongside investment in health campaigns to help people reduce their risk of cancer, the government urgently needs to take action to stop children starting smoking by introducing standardised packaging for cigarettes without delay”, he added.
(19) Four of the six related deaths and half the urgent operations occurred among 18 patients iwth colonic dilatation.
(20) The other two patients underwent urgent adrenalectomy and had postoperative improvement in their multiple organ system failure.