micturition

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The same negativism may be shown in micturition, and mothers will give distressing accounts of the suffering of the child during the passing of water BREATH-HOLDING AND LARYNGISMUS STRIDULUS In some children, in the first two years of life, we find a definite and measurable increase in the irritability and conductivity of the peripheral nerves.

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  1. The act of urinating; especially, morbidly frequent and scant urination.

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  • Therefore, the C fiber in the human bladder may have its physiological role in initiating micturition. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • Cystometrography revealed that 7 of 42 patients (17 per cent) had reflex detrusor activity: 4 with coordinated micturition and 3 with detrusorsphincter dyssynergia. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Bowel movements or micturition (urination), especially when constipated or urinating against an obstruction —  EMSResponder.com: Top EMS News
  • Remodeling of the micturition pathways occurs following experimental bladder-outlet obstruction, denervation, spinal cord injury, cystitis, and diabetes mellitus. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • It was agreed that in the majority of cases, successful management could be based on a simple algorithm which includes using reagent sticks to test for urine infection and measurement of the post micturition residual urine volume. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. = French micturition, from Latin as if *micturitiö(n-), from micturire, past participle micturitus, go to urinate, desiderative of mingere, past participle mictus, urinate: see miction.
 

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