Definitions

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

  • noun A condition marked by slow, painful urination, caused by muscular spasms of the urethra and bladder.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Scanty micturition with painful sense of spasm.
  • noun In horticulture, a disease in plants produced by tight ligatures.

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

  • noun (Med.) A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction.
  • noun (Bot.) A swelling or other disease in a plant, occasioned by a ligature fastened tightly about it.

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

  • noun A frequent need to urinate, when the bladder is largely empty or with little urine production.

Etymologies

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

[Middle English, from Latin strangūria, from Greek strangouriā : stranx, strang-, drop, trickle + -ouriā, -uria.]

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Examples

  • This kind of strangury recurs by stated periods, and sometimes arises to so great a degree, that convulsion or temporary madness terminates each period of it.

    Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • Even during the previous attacks of strangury, with an uncertain carriage, pain that bent him double, a whitening around the corners of his mouth and at his temples, Bapa had stood before the people in the morning jharoka, dragging himself to bed afterward and sleeping the day away.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • Even during the previous attacks of strangury, with an uncertain carriage, pain that bent him double, a whitening around the corners of his mouth and at his temples, Bapa had stood before the people in the morning jharoka, dragging himself to bed afterward and sleeping the day away.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • Emperor Shah Jahan had fallen ill some ten days ago of strangury.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • Even during the previous attacks of strangury, with an uncertain carriage, pain that bent him double, a whitening around the corners of his mouth and at his temples, Bapa had stood before the people in the morning jharoka, dragging himself to bed afterward and sleeping the day away.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • Emperor Shah Jahan had fallen ill some ten days ago of strangury.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • Emperor Shah Jahan had fallen ill some ten days ago of strangury.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • If, then, as is frequently the case, it cease with the disease, well; but, not withstanding, if not, give any of the medicines for strangury.

    On Fistulae 2007

  • The strangury comes on in this way: - The bladder being heated from the rectum, phlegm is attracted by the heat, and by the phlegm

    On Fistulae 2007

  • Men become affected with the stone, and are seized with diseases of the kidneys, strangury, sciatica, and become ruptured, when they drink all sorts of waters, and those from great rivers into which other rivulets run, or from a lake into which many streams of all sorts flow, and such as are brought from a considerable distance.

    On Airs, Waters, And Places 2007

  • De Gardanne’s book lists several dozen “illnesses that are typically observed around the time of menopause,” including fevers, wasting, ulcerations of the skin, cancers, haemorrhoids, coughing up blood, hepatitis, strangury (slow and painful urination), epileptic seizures and many others.

    A time of change: a history of our understanding of the menopause 2022

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  • In men: extreme difficulty in urination, to the extent that all that results is a slow painful discharge, a drop at a time, caused by spasmodic contraction of the bladder and urethra. From Greek (via Latin): 'stranx' (drop, trickle) and 'ourein' (to urinate).

    From John de Trevisa's 1398 translation of de Glenville's De proprietatibus rerum

    "He that hath that dysease ... that hyghte Stranguria, pysseth often and lytyll".

    July 30, 2008

  • Besides a strangury, which kept him on the fidget ten times in an hour, he was very much given to perspire; and in that event, I shifted him.

    - Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 2 ch. 1

    September 13, 2008

  • this one's a real ballclencher

    April 27, 2009