(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.
Nighttime
Definition:
(n.) The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to daytime.
Example Sentences:
(1) AEDs may also have differential effects on nighttime sleep.
(2) These injections had no effect on either the nighttime increase or the lights on inhibition of SNAT.
(3) Activity index showed a marked decrease after 80 hours of sleep deprivation compared with that after 40 hours and was dramatically worsened during nighttime.
(4) The association between target organ damage and systolic BP SD was present both in men and women, while that with nighttime BP was present only in men.
(5) The pH of their gastric contents was measured at hourly daytime and two hourly nighttime intervals for 48 hours.
(6) In order to investigate the possible alterations of electrical activity of aged rat pineal glands, electrophysiological recordings in 3- and 18-month-old male Sprague-Dawley rats were undertaken at both daytime and nighttime.
(7) Thirty patients with endoscopy-proved symptomatic duodenal ulcer disease completed a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of nighttime anisotropine methyl bromide therapy.
(8) In addition, we suggest the possibility that errors of judgment based on the nonveridical perception of motion displaced in time may play a role in nighttime automobile and aircraft accidents.
(9) The higher acid inhibitory effect of the twice daily dose regimens than of the single ones was evident during the daytime, whereas no difference between them was found during the nighttime (from 2200 to 0800 h).
(10) Sixty-eight percent of the unhealed patients were successfully healed; of these patients, 81% were free of daytime pain and 89% were free of nighttime pain.
(11) A homeless person is someone "who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence" and whose main nighttime residence is a "supervised public or private shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations; an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings."
(12) Since this effect might be mediated by exercise-induced cortisol secretion from the adrenal gland, in the present investigation we studied the relationship between cortisol and melatonin responses to nighttime physical stress in six healthy men, aged 28-33 yr.
(13) The present study indicates that the nighttime peak of N-acetyltransferase activity developed by organ-cultured chick pineal glands is inhibited by adrenergic agonists with a potency order characterizing alpha 2-adrenergic receptors: UK 14,304 greater than clonidine greater than alpha-methylnorepinephrine = epinephrine greater than cirazoline greater than phenylephrine greater than isoproterenol.
(14) One hundred fifty-six adult women were randomly assigned to receive either patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) alone or PCA supplemented with a nighttime infusion of morphine 1.0 mg.h-1.
(15) The pineal hormone melatonin (MLT) is secreted in a circadian rhythm with high serum levels during nighttime and low serum levels during daytime.
(16) Monocular drives were poorer than binocular drivers only in sign reading distance in both daytime and nighttime driving.
(17) These results demonstrate that forced nighttime swimming, unlike several other aversive stimuli, can evoke changes in the normal pattern of pineal melatonin production in this species.
(18) Finally, within the alcohol group, alcohol history was found to significantly correlate with nighttime mean and minimum SaO2 and absolute SaO2 desaturation.
(19) The urinary excretion of endogenous creatinine remained constant during both daytime and nighttime at both 1 and 31 ATA.
(20) Physicians have treated PCOD with clomiphene citrate or nighttime small doses of corticosteroids for 20-30 years.