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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tenesmus /tɪˈnɛzməs/

▶noun Medicine a continual inclination to evacuate the bowels.

– origin C16: via med. L. from Gk teinesmos ‘straining’.

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