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INCONTINENCE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures

Synonyms:

dissoluteness; incontinence; self-gratification

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("incontinence" is a kind of...):

indiscipline; undiscipline (the trait of lacking discipline)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incontinence"):

rakishness (the quality of a rake)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Involuntary urination or defecation

Synonyms:

incontinence; incontinency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("incontinence" is a kind of...):

elimination; evacuation; excreting; excretion; voiding (the bodily process of discharging waste matter)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incontinence"):

enuresis; urinary incontinence (inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination)

Derivation:

incontinent (not having control over urination and defecation)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Clinical features may include pain followed by rapidly progressive neurologic deficits such as extremity weakness, sensory changes, spasticity, and incontinence. (From Innocenzi et al., Clin Neurol Neurosurg 1997 Feb;99(1):1-5)

(Adult Spinal Cord Glioblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Bowel incontinence is the inability to control your bowels.

(Bowel Incontinence, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Many conditions can affect your bladder. Some common ones are: • Cystitis - inflammation of the bladder, often from an infection • Urinary incontinence - loss of bladder control • Overactive bladder - a condition in which the bladder squeezes urine out at the wrong time • Interstitial cystitis - a chronic problem that causes bladder pain and frequent, urgent urination • Bladder cancer

(Bladder Diseases, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

An elimination disorder characterized by urinary incontinence, whether involuntary or intentional, which is not due to a medical condition and which occurs at or beyond an age at which continence is expected (usually 5 years).

(Enuresis, NCI Thesaurus)