1. A straining and painful ineffectual effort to relieve the bowels.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• renesmus,
• fenesmus,
• teneamus,
• teneemus,
• teneskus,
• tenesjus,
• tenemus,
• tenesus,
• tenesmuus,
• tene3mus,
• tenes-us,
• tenesius,
• tenesous,
• tenemous,
• Tenismus,
• tinsmus,
• Tinismus,
• Tenesmas,
• Tenisimus,
• Tensismus

• tennessean,
• tennison,
• tenseness,
• tennyson.

The adjective form of the word "tenesmus" is "tenesmic".

The plural of the "tenesmus" can be the "tenesmuses".

The singular of the "tenesmus" can be the "tenesmus".