‖ ischuria
(ɪˈskjʊərɪə)
Also in English form ischury (ˈɪskjʊərɪ).
[L. ischūria, a. Gr. ἰσχουρία retention of urine, f. ἴσχ-ειν to hold + οὖρον urine, οὔριος of urine.]
Difficulty in passing urine, due either to suppression or retention.
| 1675 Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. v. 82 Like the consulting Physicians who could not agree, whether their Patients Ischury should be cured by Succinum, or by Electrum,..and the poor man died because they could not consent. 1678 Phillips (ed. 4), Ischuria, a stoppage, or difficulty of the Urine. 1684 tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. ix. 343 The Ischury proceeded from no fault in the Kidneys, or Bladder. 1748 tr. Renatus' Distemp. Horses 266 When he cannot piss at all, it is called an Ischury. 1790 J. C. Smyth in Med. Commun. II. 514 It has been the..practice in ischurias, to have recourse to purgatives. 1876 tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 573 After ischuria of several days' duration. |
Hence iˈschuric a., belonging to ischuria (Mayne, 1855).