# Strangury

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'''Strangury''' (or '''stranguria''') is the symptom characterized by painful, frequent [urination](/source/urination) of small volumes that are expelled slowly only by straining and despite a severe sense of [urgency](/source/Urinary_urgency), usually with the residual feeling of [incomplete emptying](/source/Vesical_tenesmus).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NgrRl4vHfo4C&pg=PA125|title=Aging & Blood Stasis: A New TCM Approach to Geriatrics|author=Dexin Yan|isbn=978-0936185637|year=1995|publisher=Blue Poppy Enterprises }}</ref> The origin of the term is late 14th-century [Middle English](/source/Middle_English) from Latin {{Lang|la|strangūria}}, from Greek, from {{Lang|grc-latn|stranx}}, 'a drop squeezed out' and {{Lang|grc-latn|ouron}} 'urine.'<ref>strangury. (n.d.). Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition. Retrieved July 28, 2015, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/strangury</ref> These 'drops' of urine are 'squeezed out' in what patients describe as painful 'wrenching' spasms. The pain is felt to arise in the [suprapubic](/source/suprapubic) region and extends up to the root of the [genitalia](/source/genitalia) and, in male patients, to the tip of the penis.

This distressing desire to fully void despite its impossibility is attributed to the irritation of [urothelium](/source/urothelium) ([epithelium](/source/epithelium) lining the urinary tract), especially of the [trigone](/source/Trigone_of_urinary_bladder), and subsequent spasm of muscles. It is seen in numerous urological conditions including [kidney stone](/source/kidney_stone)s (especially when a stone is impacted at the vesicourethral junction), [bladder stones](/source/bladder_stones), bladder [inflammation](/source/inflammation) ([cystitis](/source/cystitis)), and [bladder cancer](/source/bladder_cancer).

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Category:Symptoms and signs: Urinary system

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