strangury

[ strang-gyuh-ree ]

/ ˈstræŋ gyə ri /

painful urination in which the urine is emitted drop by drop owing to muscle spasms of the urethra or urinary bladder.

Origin of strangury

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin strangūria < Greek strangouríā, equivalent to strang(ós) flowing drop by drop + oûr(on) urine + -ia -y³

Both bark and leaves have been used with advantage in strangury and intermittents.

Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I |Arnold Cooley
The serpigo, the strangury, an eternal uneffectual priapism seize thee!

The Works of John Marston |John Marston
Strangury is generally due to some irritating cause, which should, if possible, be discovered and removed.

Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II |Arnold Cooley
His disease was the strangury, and the physitians judged it incurable by reason of his great age and naturall decay.

Brief Lives (Vol. 1 of 2) |John Aubrey

He considered it peculiarly adapted to all such cases if they were attended by strangury, or painful and difficult urination.

New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers |Various

strangury

/ (ˈstræŋɡjʊrɪ) /

pathol painful excretion of urine, drop by drop, caused by muscular spasms of the urinary tract

C14: from Latin strangūria, from Greek, from stranx a drop squeezed out + ouron urine

strangury

[ străng′gyə-rē ]

Slow, painful urination, in which the urine is passed drop by drop.