| 单词 | incontinence |
| 释义 | incontinence (once / 13922 pages) n Incontinence is a lack of control. Sometimes that means you can't help but pee your pants. Another, more pleasant type of incontinence has to do with being undisciplined and addicted to life's pleasures. You probably don't want anything to do with incontinence. It could mean you're wetting the bed. It could also mean you're pooping your pants. Incontinence is something we expect of babies, but it can also happen to very sick or old people. Another kind of incontinence has to do with not being in control of your life. If you can't stop spending money, drinking, and staying out late, that's a type of incontinence, too. WORD FAMILYincontinence: incontinences+/continent: continence, continency, continental, continently, continents, incontinent, subcontinent/continental: continentally, intercontinental, transcontinental/incontinency: incontinencies/incontinent: incontinence, incontinency, incontinently/transcontinental: transcontinentally USAGE EXAMPLESThe procedure is used to ease incontinence and pelvic prolapse. BBC(Dec 19, 2016) There are also more than half a dozen medications that help to reduce urge incontinence. New York Times(Dec 12, 2016) More of us will dwindle away, and succumb to dementia, incontinence, loss of mobility and chronic or acute pain. The Guardian(Oct 29, 2016) 1n involuntary urination or defecation Syn|Hypo|Hyper incontinency enuresis, urinary incontinence inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination bed-wettingenuresis during sleep; especially common in children (who usually outgrow it) overflow incontinenceurinary incontinence that occurs when the bladder is so full that it continually leaks urine; often attributable to a blocked urethra (e.g., due to prostate enlargement) or weak bladder muscles or nerve damage stress incontinenceurinary incontinence that occurs when involuntary pressure is put on the bladder by coughing or laughing or sneezing or lifting or straining urge incontinenceurinary incontinence that is generally attributable to involuntary contracts of the bladder muscle resulting in an urgent need to urinate accompanied by a sudden loss of urine; most common in people over 60 years of age elimination, evacuation, excreting, excretion, voiding the bodily process of discharging waste matter 2n indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures Syn|Hypo|Hyper dissoluteness, self-gratification rakishness the quality of a rake indiscipline, undiscipline the trait of lacking discipline |
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