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Definition of Incontinence
1. Noun. Involuntary urination or defecation.
Generic synonyms: Elimination, Evacuation, Excreting, Excretion, Voiding
Specialized synonyms: Enuresis, Urinary Incontinence
Derivative terms: Incontinent, Incontinent
2. Noun. Indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures.
Generic synonyms: Indiscipline, Undiscipline
Specialized synonyms: Rakishness
Derivative terms: Dissolute
Definition of Incontinence
1. n. Incapacity to hold; hence, incapacity to hold back or restrain; the quality or state of being incontinent; want of continence; failure to restrain the passions or appetites; indulgence of lust; lewdness.
Definition of Incontinence
1. Noun. (dated) Lack of self-restraint, an inability to control oneself; unchastity. ¹
2. Noun. (medicine) The inability of any of the physical organs to restrain discharges of their contents; involuntary discharge or evacuation (of urine or feces). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incontinence
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Medical Definition of Incontinence
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Incontinence
Literary usage of Incontinence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bound for Good Health: A Collection of Age PagesMedical (1993)
"At least 1 in 10 persons age 65 or older suffers from incontinence. ... Persons with
incontinence often withdraw from social life and try to hide the ..."
2. The Principles and Practice of Gynecology: For Students and Practitioners by Emilius Clark Dudley (1908)
"incontinence OF URINE IN WOMEN.1 THIS discussion is confined to the ...
incontinence due to acquired urinary fistula or to any congenital defect of the ..."
3. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1891)
"cholic temperament are most liable to incontinence of the hasty sort; such people
do not wait to hear the voice of reason, because, in the former case ..."
4. The Practice of pediatrics by Charles Gilmore Kerley (1918)
"incontinence OF URINE (ENURESIS) In enuresis there is an involuntary emptying of
the bladder. Enuresis diurna is the involuntary emptying of the bladder ..."
5. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1871)
"During the past two years and a half, twenty cases of incontinence of urine have
been treated by me; the medicine invariably prescribed has been syrup of ..."
6. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Robert Williams (1869)
"As to the contraries of the first two of these there need be no difficulty; for
the contrary of vice we call virtue, and the contrary of incontinence we ..."
7. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1858)
"This sort of incontinence also frequently accompanies stone in the bladder.
But it is the second condition which constitutes true incontinence. ..."
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