anuresis
English
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Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌæn.jʊˈɹiːsɪs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌæn.jəˈɹisɪs/
- Rhymes: -iːsɪs
Noun
anuresis (uncountable)
- (medicine) The inability to urinate; the retention of urine in the bladder.
- 2010, Perminder S. Sachdev, Matcheri S. Keshavan, editors, Secondary Schizophrenia, Cambridge University Press, page 235:
- Kaido [35] describes a 53-year-old Japanese lady whose index presentation was with vomiting, anuresis, and clouded conscious state on a background of 6 months of apathy.
- 2012, David Foster Wallace, Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments[1], page vii:
- Suffice it to say that the urge to look over/down at their penises is powerful and the motives behind this urge so complex as to cause anuresis (which in turn ups the trauma).
- 2012 March, Paul Nikolaidis, Nancy A. Hammond (guest editors), Frank H. Miller (consulting editor), Genitourinary Imaging, Radiologic Clinics of North America, Volume 50, Number 2, unnumbered page,
- Although rare, symptoms may include lumbar or hip pain, dysuria, oliguria, anuresis, and, more rarely, hematuria and pollakiuria.
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Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from English anuresis.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /anuˈresis/ [a.nuˈre.sɪs]
- Rhymes: -esis
- Syllabification: a‧nu‧re‧sis
Noun
anuresis (uncountable)
Further reading
- “anuresis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.