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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

stranguria

, Gr. [GREEK]; [GREEK], [GREEK], a drop + [GREEK] to make water, [GREEK] urine: cf. F.

strangurie

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(Med.)

A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction.

(Bot.)

A swelling or other disease in a plant, occasioned by a ligature fastened tightly about it.

Noun.

[L., Gr., a drop, urine.] Literally, a discharge of urine by drops; a difficulty of discharging urine, attended with pain.