strangury Path.
(ˈstræŋgjʊərɪ)
Forms: 6–7 strangurie, 6 -ye, 7 stranguery, 7–9 stranguary, 4– strangury.
[ad. L. strangūria, a. Gr. στραγγουρία, f. στραγγ-, στράγξ drop squeezed out + οὖρον urine. Cf. F. strangurie (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. A disease of the urinary organs characterized by slow and painful emission of urine; also the condition of slow and painful urination.
| [1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vi. xxi. (1495) 211 He that hath that dysease..that hyghte Stranguria, pyssyth ofte and lytyll.] a 1400–50 Stockh. Med. MS. 133 For þe strangury. 1522 More De quat. Noviss. Wks. 77/2 Parcase y⊇ stone or the strangurye, haue put thee..to no lesse torment. 1651 Jer. Taylor Holy Dying iv. §5. (1727) 144 The Axe is much a less affliction than a strangury. 1687 Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 425 The lord chancellor is lately taken very ill with the stone and strangury. 1691 Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 584 He..had never either Gout, Stone, Stranguery, or Head⁓ach. c 1720 Gibson Farrier's Dispens. x. (1734) 238 This is adapted to Horses that are subject to the Stone and Strangury. 1765 Sterne Tr. Shandy VIII. iii, I hope they have got better of their colds,..fevers, stranguries, [etc.]. 1794 G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. I. xi. 488 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 Therap. (1879) 502 Complete strangury was not produced, but there was some difficulty in passing the urine. 1883 American V. 205 M. Louis Blanc had been suffering terribly for the past two years from a strangury. |
| fig. 1692 Crowne Regulus ii, Wine they will have, and have no stoppage of Wine here, give my Trade the Strangury? |
¶ 2. By erroneous etymological association with
strangle, the word has sometimes been supposed to mean a disease due to strangling or choking.
a. fig.| 1698 Farquhar Love & Bottle iii. i, But why a Scribler, Madam?.. Is my Countenance strain'd, as if my head were distorted by a Stranguary of thought? 1847 Thackeray Contrib. to Punch Wks. 1899 VI. 98 Everybody stopped. There was a perfect strangury in the street. |
b. Bot. (See
quot.; the sense appears in dictionaries, but evidence of its actual use is wanting.)
| 1840 Paxton Bot. Dict., Strangury, a disease produced on plants by tight ligatures. |