Meaning of INCONTINENCE
| Pronunciation: | | `ink'ântununs
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- [n] indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures
- [n] involuntary urination or defecation
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| | Synonyms: | | dissoluteness, incontinency, self-gratification |
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| | See Also: | | elimination, enuresis, evacuation, excreting, excretion, indiscipline, rakishness, undiscipline, urinary incontinence, voiding | |
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| | Definition: | | Incontinence
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*con"ti*nence\, Incontinency \In*con"ti*nen*cy\,
n. [L. incontinentia: cf. F. incontinence.]
1. 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.
That Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. --1
Cor. vii. 5.
From the rash hand of bold incontinence. --Milton.
2. (Med.) The inability of any of the animal organs to
restrain the natural evacuations, so that the discharges
are involuntary; as, incontinence of urine.
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| | Definition: | | Inability to control the flow of urine from the bladder (urinary incontinence) or the escape of stool from the rectum (fecal incontinence). |
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| | Definition: | | Incontinence is the inability to control urination or defecation. |
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