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about 1 month ago sionnach said:

In men: extreme difficulty in urination, to the extent that all that results is a slow painful discharge, a drop at a time, caused by spasmodic contraction of the bladder and urethra. From Greek (via Latin): 'stranx' (drop, trickle) and 'ourein' (to urinate).

From John de Trevisa's 1398 translation of de Glenville's De proprietatibus rerum

"He that hath that dysease ... that hyghte Stranguria, pysseth often and lytyll".

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