(n.) The act of voiding urine; also, a morbidly frequent passing of the urine, in consequence of disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) Attention should be paid to the circumstances under which the chart is applied, as normal micturition behaviour seems to be highly dependent on social factors.
(2) Recently, direct pathways from the dorsolateral pons to the ON, probably involved in supraspinal micturition control, have been reported (Holstege et al., 1986).
(3) Micturition cystourethrography, repeated in 15 patients at the end of the treatment, showed a clear-cut improvement of bladder neck suspension defects in all but 2 patients.
(4) 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.
(5) At 12 months TURP had also improved micturition time and voided volume, which TUI had not.
(6) Initial experience with the use of bromocriptine in 24 patients with troublesome micturition symptoms associated with an unstable bladder is described.
(7) Our observations also suggest that post-synaptic nerve degeneration (denervation) plays an important role in the increased sensitivity of the detrusor muscle to acetylcholine in the parasympathetically decentralized urinary bladder, whether denervation is due to trans-synaptic degeneration or impairment of micturition.
(8) Free voiding and micturition alongside a fine indwelling urethral catheter of similar voided volumes of urine were recorded for 43 men over 50 years of age.
(9) VIP, a putative neurotransmitter in C-fiber bladder afferents, inhibited micturition reflexes when injected intrathecally (2-10 micrograms) in intact cats but facilitated micturition reflexes in spinal cats (doses 0.1-1 micrograms, i.t.).
(10) Detubularized orthotopic low-pressure bladder substitute following radical cystoprostatectomy allows micturition per urethram and urinary continence.
(11) The time from infusion to micturition, from opening pressure to return to baseline, and from the beginning to the end of the CMG were also recorded.
(12) Intravesical administration of hyperosmolar NaCl or urea solutions produced a concentration-dependent stimulatory action on the micturition reflex in urethane-anesthetized rats.
(13) By means of an extracellular glass microelectrode method, unitary discharges synchronized with the grouping discharges in the pelvic vesical branch with a rhythm of 2.2-2.5 Hz were recorded from the pontine micturition center in the dorsolateral pontine tegmentum.
(14) Bladder responses were clearly altered in alloxan treated rats as compared to normal rats, as shown by an increased vesical weight, an increased threshold for micturition reflex and a reduced rate of rhythmic contraction.
(15) A total of 1,065 men aged 60-70 years replied to a questionnaire about their micturition patterns.
(16) The central anticholinergic syndrome (CAS) includes central signs (somnolence, confusion, amnesia, agitation, hallucinations, dysarthria, ataxia, delirium, stupor, coma) and peripheral signs (dry mouth, dry skin, tachycardia, visual disturbances and difficulty in micturition).
(17) Micturition is the process whereby urine is collected in the bladder until such time as it is convenient to void.
(18) The volume-evoked micturition reflex was assessed by cystometrography before, and 2 h, 1 day and 7 days after injection.
(19) Micturitional history revealed that 30 patients (81%) had voiding symptoms: obstructive in 14, irritative in 5, and both symptoms in 11.
(20) Hence, the use of this drug seems to be worthwhile for the treatment of patients with mild micturition difficulty.
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.