(a.) Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
(a.) Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.
(a.) Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste.
(a.) Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever.
(a.) That which contains anything; a receptacle.
(a.) One of the grand divisions of land on the globe; the main land; specifically (Phys. Geog.), a large body of land differing from an island, not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of North America.
Example Sentences:
(1) This report represents the first comprehensive description of instantaneous and continous phasic blood velocity at the mitral valve during atrial arrhythmias in man.
(2) During sixty-six months, 145 Kock pouches were constructed: 79 for continent cutaneous diversion (44 men, 35 women), 54 bladder replacements by men, 12 ileo-rectal diversions (10 women, 2 men).
(3) The continence achieved in this case seems to be in contradiction to some of the accepted concepts of the mechanisms of continence.
(4) Piling refugees on trains in the hopes that they go far, far away brings back memories of the darkest period of our continent,” he told Der Spiegel.
(5) Decreased maximal voluntary squeeze pressures were less severe in continent patients with multiple sclerosis than in incontinent patients with multiple sclerosis.
(6) Persistence in the treatment of these patients is essential because multiple operations often are necessary to achieve continence.
(7) Ninety-two per cent of patients who irrigated their colostomies gained fecal continence.
(8) To overcome the problem of incontinence which failed to respond to standard measures, an animal model was designed for continent diversion without cystectomy.
(9) Stress continence depends upon three factors: proximal urethral support, vesical neck closure, and urethral contractility.
(10) 12 children (38%) showed modifications of bladder-sphincter equilibrium, without acquiring socially sufficient continence.
(11) The Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (Index of ADL) is a scale whose grades reflect profiles of behavioral levels of six sociobiological functions, namely, bathing, dressing, toileting, transfer, continence, and feeding.
(12) She attributes her interest in helping the continent to a "better perspective" on life derived from Kabbalah.
(13) By easing these huge flows of hundreds of billions across borders, the single currency played a material role in causing the continent's crisis.
(14) Measurements have been made continously with an electrochemical cell sensitive to oxygen.
(15) About 53% of the continent’s total land mass is used for agriculture.
(16) The potassium concentrations in erythrocytes, serum and urine were continously determined in 3 patients who had taken acetyldigoxin (45 to 100 tablets Novodigal à 0,2 mg) in order to commit suicide.
(17) Besides first follow-up results of patients with bladder substitution or continent urinary diversion, analysis of experimental investigations and functionally comparable clinical conditions enables an insight into potential following physiopathological interrelationships.
(18) We conclude that the Kock continent urostomy offers an important alternative to noncontinent forms of diversion.
(19) On the basis of continence results from these patients, the influence of the primary operation on postoperative anorectal continence is discussed.
(20) Individuals undergoing delayed bladder closure without iliac osteotomy had no notable difference in the incidence of bladder dehiscence (p greater than 0.5) but they had a statistically significant difference in the ability to gain urinary continence (p less than 0.01).
Incontinent
Definition:
(a.) Not continent; uncontrolled; not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd.
(a.) Unable to restrain natural evacuations.
(n.) One who is unchaste.
(adv.) Incontinently; instantly immediately.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, abdominal Marlex-mesh rectopexy can be recommended as safe and effective treatment for rectal prolapse, despite some patients developing constipation and some remaining incontinent.
(2) All of the nude mice developed paraplegia with or without incontinence at 2 weeks and routinely died of inanition 3 weeks postimplantation.
(3) Four patients had previously been diverted and the other six were reconstructed because of intractable incontinence or deteriorating renal function.
(4) There were 13 patients with bladder exstrophy and 2 with incontinent epispadias.
(5) Urinary incontinence present between 7 and 10 days after stroke was the most important adverse prognostic factor both for survival and for recovery of function.
(6) After operation, one man had persistent major stress incontinence.
(7) Decreased maximal voluntary squeeze pressures were less severe in continent patients with multiple sclerosis than in incontinent patients with multiple sclerosis.
(8) To overcome the problem of incontinence which failed to respond to standard measures, an animal model was designed for continent diversion without cystectomy.
(9) Faecal incontinence may be due to a trauma, a rectal prolapse, or a neurological disorder.
(10) This study demonstrates the limitations of the Q-Tip test and reconfirms the need for more sensitive and specific urodynamic investigations of the incontinent woman.
(11) He joined the Coldstream Guards, while Debo and her mother went to Berne to collect Unity, who had put a bullet through her brain but survived, severely damaged; they coped with Unity's resultant moodiness and incontinence through the first year of war.
(12) In recent years, accurate preoperative diagnosis has been increasingly emphasized as an important therapeutic aspect of urinary incontinence in women.
(13) With these scores we expect to facilitate the diagnostic screening, to indicate the way of therapy and to avoid unnecessary surgery for urinary incontinence in cases of motor-urge-incontinence (detrusor instability, unstable bladder), as long as a urodynamic examination is not feasible on every incontinent women.
(14) Urinary frequency was normalized in 6 out of 16 (37.5%), urgency ceased in 6 out of 17 (35.7%) and urgent incontinence disappeared in 9 out of 14 (50%) patients.
(15) Parallel to the traditional lateral cystogram with chain, perineal sonography as was employed as avisual procedure on 50 patients, who presented themselves at our clinic for urodynamic screening for clinical incontinence.
(16) The clinical effectiveness and safety of terodiline hydrochloride and clenbuterol hydrochloride were studied on 51 patients with neurogenic bladder, stress incontinence, unstable bladder and others, the chief complaints of which were urinary frequency or urinary incontinence.
(17) The prevalences of urinary incontinence, difficulty in bladder emptying and irritative bladder symptoms are not known in the noninstitutionalized elderly in this country.
(18) When administered to adult patients with urge incontinence (generally as a 25mg twice-daily dose) terodiline reduces diurnal and nocturnal micturition frequency and incontinence episodes.
(19) Two variations on a test for quantifying urine loss in patients with urinary incontinence were compared.
(20) We feel that GAX collagen injection is a safe and easy method for the treatment of urinary stress incontinence; it has no observable or measurable morbidity.