| NOUN | process | urinary incontinence, enuresis | inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination |
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| Meaning | inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination. | |
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| Synonym | enuresis | |
| Narrower | bed-wetting | enuresis during sleep / sleep |
| overflow incontinence | urinary incontinence that occurs when the bladder is so full that it continually leaks urine | |
| stress incontinence | urinary incontinence that occurs when involuntary pressure is put on the bladder by coughing or laughing or sneezing or lifting or straining | |
| urge incontinence | urinary incontinence that is generally attributable to involuntary contracts of the bladder muscle resulting in an urgent need to urinate accompanied by a sudden loss of urine | |
| Broader | incontinence, incontinency | involuntary urination or defecation |
| Spanish | enuresis | |
| Catalan | enuresi | |
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