(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.
Involuntary
Definition:
(a.) Not having will or the power of choice.
(a.) Not under the influence or control of the will; not voluntary; as, the involuntary movements of the body; involuntary muscle fibers.
(a.) Not proceeding from choice; done unwillingly; reluctant; compulsory; as, involuntary submission.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aggressive behavior during acute involuntary admission was related to ratings on the Brief Psychopathological Rating Scale, age, sex and global assessment in 38 patients.
(2) 93% (non-smokers 99%, smokers 84%) felt that involuntary smoking should be restricted in the workplace and 99% (non-smokers 99%, smokers 97%) felt that it should be restricted in the canteens.
(3) Hemimasticatory spasm is a rare disorder of the trigeminal nerve that produces involuntary jaw closure due to paroxysmal unilateral contraction of jaw-closing muscles.
(4) and involuntary fetal wastage, HLA-A, B compatibility between husband and wife was studied in a group of 77 couples with known obstetric histories.
(5) Urodynamic study of the ileal neobladder showed a low pressure (mean 15.3 cm water) and no involuntary pressure spikes in the neobladder.
(6) About 15% of patients fail to respond to initial antibiotic therapy, 20% experience recurrences, 20% develop involuntary infertility, and 8% of post-PID patients who conceive have an ectopic pregnancy.
(7) Idiopathic torsion dystonia (ITD) is characterized by sustained, involuntary muscle contractions, frequently causing twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures.
(8) "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.
(9) Phenytoin-induced involuntary movements have not been described previously in a case with such a small parasaggital tumour treated with phenytoin at a serum concentration of therapeutic range.
(10) Tremor refers to an involuntary, rhythmic, oscillatory movement of a body part.
(11) Although little change in either mental status or involuntary movements was observed within the 3 weeks following the withdrawal of haloperidol, marked deterioration in mental status and involuntary movements occurred within 1 week of withdrawal of clozapine.
(12) The occurrence of this and related syndromes suggests that inherited, slowly progressive myoclonus, chorea, and dystonia, alone or in combination, should be viewed as a spectrum of hyperkinetic involuntary movements, and that each motor component may represent variable expression of the same genetic defect.
(13) Muscle atrophy, involuntary movements or associated movements in the facial muscles on the side of the anastomosis, which are frequent during spontaneous regeneration, were never observed.
(14) The level of involuntary dehydration is approximately proportional to the degree of total stress imposed on the body.
(15) In the elderly, there are two main types of abnormal involuntary movements: tremors on one hand and dyskinesias on the other.
(16) This paper describes this unexpected, involuntary intervention in patient care in the Department of Geriatric Medicine.
(17) The first case was a premature female infant who developed involuntary twist movements of the left arm, persistent plantar flexion and eversion of the left foot at age of 7 months.
(18) The pharmacokinetics of tetrabenazine and a metabolite, hydroxytetrabenazine, have been investigated in seven patients being treated for involuntary movement disorders.
(19) This involuntary muscle activity was attributed to fusimotor and postural reflexes.
(20) Tardive dyskinesia is a potentially irreversible syndrome of involuntary hyperkinetic movements that occur in predisposed persons receiving extended neuroleptic (antipsychotic) drug therapy.