Enuresis

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  • noun. The involuntary discharge of urine; urinary incontinence.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In pathology, incontinence or involuntary discharge of urine.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. involuntary urination, urinary incontinence
  • noun. nighttime enuresis, bedwetting
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination
  • Word Usage
    "Best of all, Silverman touches all the milestones and wet spots of the titular affliction, medically known as enuresis: parents who get up at night with the bedwetting child, fear of embarrassment on a sleepover, the electric pad in the bed that jolts the child awake with its alarm, the prescient doctor who declares early on that she'll outgrow it (and she does)."
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