Enuresis

Definition: Enuresis

Enuresis

Noun

1. Inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination.

Date "enuresis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Etymology: Enuresis \En`u*re"sis\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression to urinate in; + urine.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Enuresis

Domain	Definitions
Health	Involuntary discharge of urine after the age at which urinary control should have been achieved; often used alone with specific reference to involuntary discharge of urine occurring during sleep at night (bed-wetting, nocturnal enuresis). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Enuresis

Synonym: urinary incontinence (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Enuresis

English words defined with "enuresis": bedwetter, bed-wetting ♦ wetter. (references)

Specialty definitions using "enuresis": 1-deamino-8-arginine-vasopressin ♦ 8-arginine. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Enuresis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (enuresis), Spanish (bed-wetting, enuresis).

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Commercial Usage: Enuresis

Domain	Title
Books	Bladder Control & Enuresis (reference) Enuresis Research Today: 1st International Enuresis Symposium, Kyoto, September 1997, Proceeding (European Urology , Vol 33, Suppl. 3) (reference) Sammy the Elephant and Mr. Camel: A Story to Help Children Overcome Enuresis While Discovering Self-Appreciation (reference) The Bladder and the Brain: Studies of the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Nocturnal Enuresis (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations, 828) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Enuresis

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Diurnal enuresis refers to wetting when awake (daytime incontinence). (references)
		Secondary enuresis refers to wetting that begins after at least 6 months of dryness. (references)
		Primary enuresis refers to wetting in a person who has never been dry for at least 6 months. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Enuresis

"Enuresis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Enuresis" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	30	63,341

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Enuresis

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
enuresis	215
nocturnal enuresis	34
enuresis nocturna	13
enuresis alarm	12
adult enuresis	11
diurnal enuresis	7
enuresis treatment	6
adult enuresis nocturnal	4
enuresis treatment center	4
sleep enuresis	4
enuresis pants plastic	3
child with enuresis	2
enuresis secondary	2
enuresis international pacific	2
daytime enuresis	2
encopresis enuresis y	2
encopresis enuresis	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Enuresis

Language		Translations for "enuresis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		urinim i pavullnetshëm, mosmbajtje e urinës. (various references)

Arabic		‏سلس البول (incontinence). (various references)

Chinese		遗尿. (various references)

Danish		enuresis (anischuria, incontinence, urinary incontinence, urine incontinence). (various references)

Dutch		enuresis (anischuria, urinary incontinence, vesical incontinence), enurese, enuresis, enurese (anischuria), incontinentia urinae (anischuria, urinary incontinence, vesical incontinence), bedwateren (bed-wetting), bedplassen (bed-wetting), anischurie (anischuria), anischuria (anischuria). (various references)

Esperanto		enurezo (bed-wetting), liturinado (bed-wetting). (various references)

French		énurésie. (various references)

German		Enurese. (various references)

Greek		ακράτεια ούρων (anischuria, incontinence, urinary incontinence, urine incontinence, vesical incontinence). (various references)

Hebrew		�"שת� �" שלא מ�"עת. (various references)

Hungarian		vizelési kényszer. (various references)

Italian		enuresi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		夜尿症 (bed-wetting). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		いにょう (bed wetting, enclosure, surrounding), やにょうしょう (bed-wetting). (various references)

Pig Latin		enuresisay

Portuguese		enuresia (anischuria), enurese. (various references)

Russian		энурез, недержание мочи. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		enureza. (various references)

Spanish		enuresis (anischuria, bed-wetting). (various references)

Turkish		idrarını tutamama. (various references)

Ukranian		нетримання сечі. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Enuresis

Derivations
	Words beginning with "enuresis": enuresises. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Enuresis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amurensis, Ecureuils, Einerseits, enardeces, eneuresis, eneurisis, enures, enuretics. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Enuresis"

Words rhyming with "enuresis" (pronounced 'En`u*re"sis'): Absis, Actinomycosis, Adenosclerosis, AEsthesis, Agennesis, Albuminosis, Amanuensis, Amaurosis, Amitosis, Ampelopsis, Amphiarthrosis, Anacoenosis, Anacrusis, Anadiplosis, Anaesthesis, Anamnesis, Anastomosis, Anemosis, Angioneurosis, Antanaclasis, Anthesis, Anthracosis, Antiptosis, Antipyresis, Antisepsis, Aponeurosis, Aposiopesis, apsis, Archebiosis, Arsis, Arteriosclerosis, Arthrosis, Asepsis, Athetosis, Autokinesis, Auxesis, Basis, Biognosis, Calliopsis, Cardiosclerosis, Cariopsis, Caryopsis, Catachresis, Chemosis, Chlorosis, Chromidrosis, Cillosis, Cirrhosis, Classis, Coenesthesis. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Enuresis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-r-s-s-u"
	-1 letter: ensures, insures, reissue, seiners, seisure, sereins, serines, sunrise.
	-2 letters: ensues, ensure, enures, insure, inures, issuer, nereis, nurses, resins, reuses, rinses, rusine, seiner, seines, seiser, serein, series, serine, serins, sieurs, sirees, sirens, sneers, urines, ursine.
	-3 letters: ensue, enure, ernes, erses, inure, issue, nisus, nurse, reins, resin, reuse, rinse, risen, rises, risus, ruins, runes, ruses.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-r-s-s-u"
	+1 letter: nurseries, reinfuses, reinsures, seigneurs, sinecures, squireens, universes.
	+2 letters: enuresises, esuriences, impureness, interfuses, licensures, neuritises, refuseniks, reinsurers, snuggeries, subentries, terminuses, undersides, unripeness.
	+3 letters: burlinesses, curlinesses, cursiveness, equestrians, furtiveness, hirsuteness, hurriedness, insurgences, luridnesses, murkinesses, natriureses, neutralises, overinsures, pursinesses, putrescines, questioners, recusancies, refurnishes, ruddinesses, runtinesses, rustinesses, scrutineers, seigneuries, septenarius, seriousness, subservient, superliners, superseding, supersinger, surlinesses, unassertive, unimpressed, uninterests, unreadiness.
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