单词 | strangury |
释义 | stranguryn. Pathology. 1. A disease of the urinary organs characterized by slow and painful emission of urine; also the condition of slow and painful urination. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > urinary disorders > [noun] > difficulty in urination dysury1398 chaudpissea1400 strangurya1400 droppell-piss1527 strangullion1530 strangurion1547 suppression1564 drop-piss1578 hot piss1578 pain-piss1614 ischuria1675 paruria1822 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vi. xxi. 211 He that hath that dysease..that hyghte Stranguria, pyssyth ofte and lytyll.] a1400–50 Stockh. Med. MS 133 For þe strangury. c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 77 Parcase ye stone or the strangurye, haue put thee..to no lesse torment. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule of Holy Dying (1727) iv. §5. 144 The Axe is much a less affliction than a strangury. 1687 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 425 The lord chancellor is lately taken very ill with the stone and strangury. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 584 He..had never either Gout, Stone, Stranguery, or Head~ach. 1721 W. Gibson Farriers Dispensatory iii. x. 238 This is adapted to Horses, that are Subject to the Stone and Strangury. 1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. iii. 7 I hope they have got better of their colds,..fevers, stranguries, [etc.]. 1799 W. Jones Adams's Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. (ed. 2) I. xi. 553 In calculous complaints of the urinary passages, and in habitual stranguaries. 1847 W. C. L. Martin Ox 153/1 Sometimes there is great stranguary, but this is not an invariable symptom. 1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 502 Complete strangury was not produced, but there was some difficulty in passing the urine. 1883 American 5 205 M. Louis Blanc had been suffering terribly for the past two years from a strangury. 2. By association with strangle n., the word has sometimes been supposed to mean a disease due to strangling or choking. a. figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > entangling or confining tangling1535 entangling1574 strangury1699 entanglement1751 enmeshment1885 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > crowded condition or crowding > overcrowding or overcrowded condition pesterment1593 overcrowding1842 strangury1847 congestion1868 engorgement1872 1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle iii. i. 28 But why a Scribler, Madam?.. Is my Countenance strain'd, as if my head were distorted by a Stranguary of Thought? 1847 W. M. Thackeray Contrib. to Punch in Wks. (1899) VI. 98 Everybody stopped. There was a perfect strangury in the street. b. Botany. (See quot. 1840; the sense appears in dictionaries, but evidence of its actual use is wanting.) ΚΠ 1840 J. Paxton Pocket Bot. Dict. Strangury, a disease produced on plants by tight ligatures. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1400 |
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