Definition
Inability to empty the bowel, with unpleasant or painful feeling of need to defecate, without this being possiblePossible Causes * of rectal Tenesmus
- amebiasis
- Colon cancer
- Carcinoma of the uterine cervix
- Chlamydia
- Colitis
- Ischemic colitis
- Spastic colitis
- Ulcerative colitis
- Gonorrhea
- Venereal lymphogranuloma
- Onicofagia
- Intestinal polyps
- proctitis
- Schistosomiasis
- Shigellosis
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Constipation
- Colorectal cancer
- Anus tumor
