URINARY INCONTINENCE
Dictionary entry overview: What does urinary incontinence mean?
• URINARY INCONTINENCE (noun)
The noun URINARY INCONTINENCE has 1 sense:
1. inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination
Familiarity information: URINARY INCONTINENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• URINARY INCONTINENCE (noun)
Meaning:
Inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
enuresis; urinary incontinence
Hypernyms ("urinary incontinence" is a kind of...):
incontinence; incontinency (involuntary urination or defecation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "urinary incontinence"):
bed-wetting (enuresis during sleep; especially common in children (who usually outgrow it))
overflow incontinence (urinary incontinence that occurs when the bladder is so full that it continually leaks urine; often attributable to a blocked urethra (e.g., due to prostate enlargement) or weak bladder muscles or nerve damage)
stress incontinence (urinary incontinence that occurs when involuntary pressure is put on the bladder by coughing or laughing or sneezing or lifting or straining)
urge incontinence (urinary incontinence that is generally attributable to involuntary contracts of the bladder muscle resulting in an urgent need to urinate accompanied by a sudden loss of urine; most common in people over 60 years of age)
