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in·con·ti·nence

 (ĭn-kŏn′tə-nəns)
n.
The quality or state of being incontinent.
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incontinence

Condition resulting from various causes, including injury or old age, in which urination cannot be voluntarily controlled. It may be temporary or permanent.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.incontinence - involuntary urination or defecation
excreting, excretion, voiding, elimination, evacuation - the bodily process of discharging waste matter
enuresis, urinary incontinence - inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination
2.incontinence - indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures
indiscipline, undiscipline - the trait of lacking discipline
rakishness - the quality of a rake
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incontinence

noun
A complete surrender of inhibitions:
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Translations
inkontinens
karkailu
incontinenza
incontinentie

incontinence

[ɪnˈkɒntɪnəns] Nincontinencia f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

incontinence

[ɪnˈkɒntɪnəns] nincontinence f
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

incontinence

n (Med) → Inkontinenz f; (of desires)Zügellosigkeit f, → Hemmungslosigkeit f

incontinence

:
incontinence pad
nEinlage ffür Inkontinente
incontinence sheet
nUnterlage ffür Inkontinente
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

incontinence

[ɪnˈkɒntɪnəns] n (Med) → incontinenza
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

in·con·ti·nence

n. incontinencia, emisión involuntaria, inhabilidad de controlar la orina o las heces fecales;
bowel ______ intestinal;
fecal ______ fecal;
overflow ______ por rebozamiento;
reflex ______ de reflejo;
urinary ______ urinaria;
urinary stress ______ urinaria de esfuerzo.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

incontinence

n incontinencia; fecal — incontinencia fecal, incapacidad f para retener las heces; overflow — incontinencia por rebosamiento; stress — incontinencia de esfuerzo; urge — incontinencia de urgencia; urinary — incontinencia urinaria, incapacidad f para retener la orina
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The protocol is employed not only to address a single manifestation (e.g., urinary incontinence) but also to treat complex presentations and those with multiple disorders (e.g., urinary incontinence and fecal incontinence).
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She described symptoms of alternating 3 to 4 days of constipation and a day of fecal incontinence. Her fecal control prior to the breast cancer treatments was regular continence with the occasional incontinent episode only once every 3 months.
Defecation frequency averaged 1.5 per week, and fecal incontinence occurred an average of seven times per week.
A review of the contributors reveals careful selection for their individual expertise in the nursing management of urinary and fecal incontinence. The text is liberally enhanced with illustrations and color plates that add visual emphasis to the literary content.
Expanded success with experimental surgical treatments for chronic fecal incontinence offers new hope to patents who have exhausted conventional treatment options.
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A new FDA approved, over-the-counter option for stress urinary incontinence and several office-based and surgical treatment systems for urinary and fecal incontinence are now available or on the horizon.
Fecal incontinence is a condition that has social and economic effects and disrupts quality of life (1).
Food and Drug Administration approval of the InterStim smart programmer for use with the InterStim system, which provides sacral neuromodulation therapy for the treatment of overactive bladder, chronic fecal incontinence and non-obstructive urinary retention.
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