(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.
Urination
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of voiding urine; micturition.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
(2) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
(3) One thing seems to be noteworthy in their opinion: the bacterial resistance of the germs isolated from the urine is bigger than the one of the germs isolated from the respiratory apparatus.
(4) This difference is probably secondary to the different rates of delivery of furosemide into urine.
(5) No associations were found between sex, body-weight, smoking habits, age, urine volume or urine pH and the O-demethylation of codeine.
(6) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
(7) Zinc in plasma and urine and serum albumin and alpha 2-macroglobulin were measured in 48 patients with burns.
(8) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(9) A sensitive, selective and easy to use high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of cicletanide, a new diuretic, in plasma, red blood cells, urine and saliva is described.
(10) Investigations on the influence of the diuresis effect on the results of quantitative estrogen and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) determination revealed that the estrogen values increase with the 24-hour amount of urine.
(11) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
(12) We recommend analysing the urine for porphyrins in HIV-positive patients who have chronic photosensitivity of the skin.
(13) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(14) Urine tests in six patients with other kidney diseases and with uraemia and in seven healthy persons did not show this substance.
(15) The antigenic composition of an extract of rat dust, as a source of aeroallergens for rat-sensitive individuals, has been investigated and compared to the antigenic composition of rat saliva and urine.
(16) There is a considerably larger variability of the mercury levels in urine than in blood.
(17) Metabolites of nafiverine in blood, bile, and urine were determined quantitatively.
(18) Cost-effective immunoassays for the detection of amphetamines, benzodiazepines, and methadone in urine have been developed using Syva EMIT reagents and a Cobas Bio centrifugal analyser.
(19) Sulphuric acid fluorescence is used for quantitation and specificity is achieved by the addition of tritiated oestrone to the urine hydrolysate.
(20) Their levels in urine are a useful indicator of the integrity of membrane barriers of the kidney glomerular capillary wall.