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Tenesmus
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; - always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tenesmus'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/t/tenesmus.html. 1828.