enuresis
IPA: ˈɛnjɝˈisɪs
noun
- Involuntary urination: urinary incontinence.
- Such incontinence at nighttime, especially during sleep.
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Examples of "enuresis" in Sentences
- But until I read this opinion, I didn't know what "enuresis" was.
- Though common, bed-wetting medical term: enuresis tends to go away for most kids by age four or five.
- Removal of tonsils and adenoid vegetations might conceivably cure an enuresis which is nocturnal, it cannot account for an incontinence which spreads to the day.
- If one was to look at the peer review literature into the "medical" treatment of conditions such as enuresis, colic and asthma, one would see that the efficacy of their use is no better than chiropractic.
- I feel that some such brief examination is necessary if we are to understand correctly the ætiology of some of the most troublesome disorders of childhood, such as enuresis, anorexia, dyspepsia, or constipation, disorders in which the nervous element is perhaps to-day not sufficiently emphasised.
- Best of all, Silverman touches all the milestones and wet spots of the titular affliction, medically known as enuresis: parents who get up at night with the bedwetting child, fear of embarrassment on a sleepover, the electric pad in the bed that jolts the child awake with its alarm, the prescient doctor who declares early on that she'll outgrow it (and she does).
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