Word Meanings - ENURESIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.

Related words: (words related to ENURESIS)

• DISCHARGER
  One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.
• INVOLUNTARY
  1. Not having will of the power of choice. 2. Not under the influence or control of the will; not voluntary; as, the involuntary movements of the body; involuntary muscle fibers. 3. Not proceeding from choice; done unwillingly; reluctant;
• URINE
  In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion. Note: In man, the urine is a clear, transparent fluid of an amber color and peculiar odor, with an average density of 1.02. The average amount
• INCONTINENCE; INCONTINENCY
  The inability of any of the animal organs to restrain the natural evacuations, so that the discharges are involuntary; as, incontinence of urine. (more info) 1. Incapacity to hold; hence, incapacity to hold back or restrain; the quality or state
• DISCHARGE
  1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge
• DASYURINE
  Pertaining to, or like, the dasyures.
• FURFURINE
  A white, crystalline base, obtained indirectly from furfurol.
• TAURINE
  Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle.
• AVENTURINE
  A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica. ~= feldspar, a variety of oligoclase with internal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone. (more info) 1. A kind
• XENURINE
  A cabassou.
• DATURINE
  Atropine; -- called also daturia and daturina.
• ESURINE
  Causing hunger; eating; corroding. Wiseman.
• TIMBURINE
  A tambourine.
• VENTURINE
  Gold powder for covering varnished surfaces.
• VULTURINE
  Of or pertaining to a vulture; resembling a vulture in qualities or looks; as, the vulturine sea eagle (Gypohierax Angolensis); vulturine rapacity. The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its possessor. C. Kingsley.
• GUTTURINE
  Pertaining to the throat. "Gutturine tumor." Ray.
• LEMURIDOUS; LEMURINE
  Lemuroid.
• SCIURINE
  Of or pertaining to the Squirrel family. -- n.
• MURINE
  Pertaining to a family of rodents , of which the mouse is the type.
• FIGURINE
  A very small figure, whether human or of an animal; especially, one in terra cotta or the like; -- distinguished from statuette, which is applied to small figures in bronze, marble, etc.
• IGASURINE
  An alkaloid found in nux vomica, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.