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Tenesmus vs Constipation - What's the difference?

tenesmus | constipation |

As nouns the difference between tenesmus and constipation

is that tenesmus is the painful and often ineffectual straining to relieve the bowels while constipation is constipation.

tenesmus

English

Noun

(es)
  • The painful and often ineffectual straining to relieve the bowels
  • a painfully urgent need to urinate or defecate that results in little being passed

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    constipation

    English

    (wikipedia constipation)

    Noun

  • Act of crowding anything into a lesser compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.
  • A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces; costiveness.

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