dysuria

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Definition of dysuria

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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The experience or condition of experiencing pain while discharging urine, or (rarely) of having difficulty doing so.
    “A cystometrogram differentiates "active" and "passive" types of normal bladders, accounting for some instances of enuresis and mild forms of dysurias and, as prolonged bladder distention can be maintained at any point for any period, it is possible occasionally to use the cystometric procedure as a therapeutic agent to relieve dysurias due to a spastic bladder musculature.”
    “Neurologic dysurias are among the most difficult to characterize and to treat.”

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Etymology

From dys- + -uria. Piecewise doublet of dysury.

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