Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Painful or difficult urination.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In pathology, difficulty in micturition, attended with pain and scalding. Also dysury.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Difficult or painful discharge of urine.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun pathology difficult or painful discharge of urine

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun painful or difficult urination

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English dissure, dissuria, from Old French dissure, from Medieval Latin dissuria, from Late Latin dysūria, from Greek dusouriā : dus-, dys- + -ouriā, -uria.]

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Examples

  • The most common risks associated with GreenLight are hematuria, short term dysuria and urinary track infections.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010

  • The most common risks associated with GreenLight are hematuria, short term dysuria and urinary track infections.

    Medindia Health News 2010

  • This can bring on different aspects of pain, such as dysmenorrhea - painful, sometimes disabling cramps during menses; pain may get worse over time (progressive pain), also lower back pains linked to the pelvis, chronic pelvic pain - typically accompanied by lower back pain or abdominal pain, dyspareunia - painful sex, dysuria - urinary urgency, frequency, and sometimes painful voiding.

    Robyn N. Cohen: Why Endometriosis Needs More Media Attention 2010

  • Without those, dysuria could be anything, and herpes is right up there at the top of the list.

    Come See Me aka TBTAM 2007

  • I don't know if it's my patient population (young, uninsured) but I'd estimate that a third of what is billed as a UTI is not (herpes, yeast, cervicitis, dysuria).

    Come See Me aka TBTAM 2007

  • Dr Smak: I find the most important symptoms are those of urgency and frequency along with the dysuria.

    Come See Me aka TBTAM 2007

  • Her last menstrual period was "now"; there were no UTI symptoms of dysuria, urgency or frequency; overall, she didn't feel terribly sick except for this "discomfort" on her right side.

    Don't Forget the "P" 1 Dinosaur 2008

  • Her last menstrual period was "now"; there were no UTI symptoms of dysuria, urgency or frequency; overall, she didn't feel terribly sick except for this "discomfort" on her right side.

    Archive 2008-05-01 1 Dinosaur 2008

  • From walking arise pains of the sides, of the back, of the loins, and of the hip-joint, and disorder of the respiration has often been from the same cause, for, after excesses of wine and flatulent food, pains shoot to the loins and hips, accompanied with dysuria.

    On Regimen In Acute Diseases 2007

  • But if the north wind prevail, coughs, affections of the throat, hardness of the bowels, dysuria attended with rigors, and pains of the sides and breast occur.

    Aphorisms 2007

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