enuresis
[en-yuh-ree-sis]
- lack of control of urination, especially during sleep; bed-wetting; urinary incontinence.
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Origin of enuresis
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It is the invariable experience that the enuresis then promptly stops.
The Nervous ChildHector Charles Cameron
What enuresis signifies in this case is, from the Freudian standpoint, not difficult to understand.
We must drop it for quite three weeks, to give the enuresis a chance to stop.
I remembered my wise old woman, and asked: "When did the enuresis return?"
I mention convulsive attacks and enuresis nocturna, as pathological affections of her childhood which belong to my theme.
Sleep Walking and Moon WalkingIsidor Isaak Sadger
enuresis
- involuntary discharge of urine, esp during sleep
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Word Origin
C19: from New Latin, from Greek en- ² + ourein to urinate, from ouron urine
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enuresis
(ĕn′yə-rē′sĭs)- The uncontrolled or involuntary discharge of urine.
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