(n.) An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Enuresis risoria" or "giggle incontinence" is a particular condition characterized by a sudden, involuntary, uncontrollable and complete emptying of the bladder during giggling or hearty laughter.
(2) Evidence is presented which suggests that these two distinct types of enuresis occur de novo and do not overlap.
(3) The prevalence of nocturnal enuresis (wet at least two nights a week) was investigated in children, aged 8, who were being followed up as part of a prospective cohort study.
(4) Enuresis after sphincteroplasty was linked with functional insufficiency of the trigonal muscle due to tissue dysembryogenesis.
(5) Such findings indicate that the body-worn alarm could become the treatment of choice for nocturnal enuresis.
(6) These include enuresis, school phobias, attention deficit, conduct disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorders.
(7) The children selected showed symptoms of enuresis, frequency, urinary urgency and a positive urodynamic test.
(8) Only 5% of the children above 7 years of age had secondary enuresis.
(9) Enuresis was found to be statistically higher (p less than 0.001) in lower social class and between the age group 3 to 5 years.
(10) Enuresis was more prevalent, however, than in the population of children who had not received liver transplants.
(11) Current primary enuresis was not significantly associated with disorder.
(12) The familial influence on enuresis was clearly seen in both nightwetters and daywetters.
(13) Enuresis was more common in primary school-age children with high pinworm egg counts than in their non-infected contemporaries.
(14) A total of 39 children who exhibited primary nocturnal enuresis was assigned to one of three experimental groups: behavioral conditioning with a contiguous model of alarm, behavioral treatment with a delayed model of alarm, or a clinical waiting list.
(15) Females with a history of primary enuresis do not show this pattern so clearly.
(16) Alterations in this transition may manifest themselves in benign forms such as nocturnal enuresis or more severe forms that threaten urinary anatomy and function.
(17) I advise patients who are candidates for either type of procedure to weigh the prospect of urethral voiding (but enuresis with the ileal bladder) v a continent abdominal stoma that requires self-catheterization of variable difficulty with a cecoileal reservoir.
(18) In 8 adult patients with monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis (age 18-44 years) we twice investigated the circadian rhythm of plasma vasopressin, plasma atrial natriuretic peptide, serum osmolality, serum electrolytes as well as urinary excretion in relation to urodynamic variables.
(19) The word "enuresis" is the greek word for incontinence.
(20) The main objective of this study was to provide an adequately controlled experimental and clinical study to assess the efficacy of hypnotherapy in the treatment of nocturnal enuresis.
Incontinence
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Incontinency
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.