What's the difference between incontinent and nappy?

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.

Nappy


Definition:

  • (a.) Inclined to sleep; sleepy; as, to feel nappy.
  • (a.) Tending to cause sleepiness; serving to make sleepy; strong; heady; as, nappy ale.
  • (a.) Having a nap or pile; downy; shaggy.
  • (n.) A round earthen dish, with a flat bottom and sloping sides.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Obama was still in a nappy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, when his predecessor John F Kennedy faced down the Soviet Union’s efforts to site atomic weapons on the island that is just a few dozen miles from Florida.
  • (2) Some were wearing nappies despite being of school age, and appeared to crawl upstairs using their hands rather than walking.
  • (3) The three young men were trying to get to grips with a troubling scene in which they lark about with a baby in its pram, poking it, pulling off its nappy, goading each other until they stone it to death.
  • (4) Sales of Mamia nappies have risen 1,000% in the past four years as the company deliberately targeted new parents.
  • (5) There are thousands of children every year who grow up in homes where nappies - and bedclothes - go unchanged... ...and where their cries of pain go unheard.
  • (6) Wet nappies at night could cause infants at risk to die.
  • (7) As friends start preparing for baby number two, I remember the sleepless nights, the toxic nappies and the projectile vomiting phase, and I'm fairly sure we've made the right decision.
  • (8) "We use the money for things like nappies and milk.
  • (9) • Wipes, nappies, sanitary towels, rags and condoms do not break down easily and can snag on pipes, drains and the walls of sewers, leading to blockages.
  • (10) An unselected, mycologically-controlled trial was conducted at the University Children's Hospital of Graz on the treatment of nappy rash by the topical application of Canesten (clotrimazole), a broad-spectrum mycotic in the form of a 1% cream.
  • (11) Bushy” is the word used most; “nappy” and “kinky” are harsher, coarser words.
  • (12) A rangy former quarterback with a big, toothy grin, he was raised in the low-income housing projects in Brooklyn – "a tough place" – with his father, a proud but poorly educated man, floating from job to job; one of the worst was delivering and picking up used nappies.
  • (13) Red and white cell numbers were reduced on light microscopy of specimens obtained from nappies, but bacterial counts were unchanged.
  • (14) On Tuesday Asda said it would plough £300m into lowering the price of 2,500 essentials including fruit and vegetables, cereal, nappies, milk, meat, eggs and fish in the first three months of 2015.
  • (15) You're doing all the right things: not telling him off if he wets the bed, putting him in a night nappy etc.
  • (16) Yes, I admit that in those first few weeks it was a struggle to remember to pick up the nappies and cotton wool I'd paid for, let alone the receipt.
  • (17) Adult incontinence pads outsold baby nappies for the first time in 2012.
  • (18) Families spoke out about needing the extra room for medical equipment; box rooms lined with adult nappies and oxygen cylinders that rich men in power called a luxury.
  • (19) And I've taken pleasure in consulting women half my age about whether I should opt for an Ergo carrier or a Baby Bjorn , whether my feet will ever shrink back to their pre-pregnancy size and whether we really need a nappy bin?
  • (20) The privately owned chain is still a relative minnow, controlling just 5.8% of all grocery sales in the UK, but only Pampers nappies are bigger sellers than its Mamia brand, and 8% of our fresh fruit and veg, and over a fifth of all premium steaks, are bought in Aldi stores.