Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The involuntary discharge of urine; urinary incontinence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, incontinence or involuntary discharge of urine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
involuntary urination ,urinary incontinence - noun
nighttime enuresis,bedwetting
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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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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).
JSOnline.com 2010
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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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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).
JSOnline.com 2010
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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.
What the British Chiropractic Association - and English Libel Law - should do next Jack of Kent 2009
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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.
The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron
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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.
The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron
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But until I read this opinion, I didn't know what "enuresis" was.
California Appellate Report Shaun Martin 2008
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Though common, bed-wetting medical term: enuresis tends to go away for most kids by age four or five.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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Though common, bed-wetting medical term: enuresis tends to go away for most kids by age four or five.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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