1Lack of voluntary control over urination or defecation.
causes of urinary incontinence
Example sentencesExamples
I need to buy incontinence pads.
Incontinence can result in bladder infections.
About 1 out of 3 women has incontinence.
Whatever the cause, fecal incontinence can be a source of embarrassment.
An estimated 40 million women - and perhaps half as many men - of all ages suffer from incontinence.
This affects elderly people and such people who are incontinence sufferers.
Pelvic floor muscles help prevent urinary incontinence.
People with urge incontinence often go to the toilet a lot during the night.
Behavioral therapy may reduce the mean number of incontinence episodes by as much as 50 percent.
Surgery can be used to treat moderate to severe stress incontinence.
2Lack of self-restraint.
the emotional incontinence of modern society
Example sentencesExamples
He was a flawed personality who damaged himself and his family by his sexual incontinence.
His speech coincided with a report on Ireland's fiscal incontinence.
Such incontinence, driven by public spending rising faster than the growth in the economy, cannot be controlled for long while keeping taxes down.
The report is scathing about the financial incontinence of bankers and consumers but complacent about regulatory failures.
Her human awkwardness and emotional incontinence showed in her every gesture.
It should be noticed that all three of these deficiencies - continence, incontinence, vice - involve some lack of internal harmony.
The newspaper grumbled that doctors, unions, and hospital administrators needed to recognize that "excellence of service is not dependent on utter incontinence in the spending of health dollars."
Their respect for the captain operated as a check to the incontinence of their passions.
I didn't stutter or display more than my normal tendencies to verbal incontinence, so I'm about as happy as I could reasonably be expected to be.
Aristotle investigates character traits - continence and incontinence - that are not as blameworthy as the vices but not as praiseworthy as the virtues.
Definition of incontinence in US English:
incontinence
nouninˈkänt(ə)nəns
1Lack of voluntary control over urination or defecation.
causes of urinary incontinence
Example sentencesExamples
This affects elderly people and such people who are incontinence sufferers.
About 1 out of 3 women has incontinence.
People with urge incontinence often go to the toilet a lot during the night.
Pelvic floor muscles help prevent urinary incontinence.
An estimated 40 million women - and perhaps half as many men - of all ages suffer from incontinence.
Behavioral therapy may reduce the mean number of incontinence episodes by as much as 50 percent.
Incontinence can result in bladder infections.
Whatever the cause, fecal incontinence can be a source of embarrassment.
I need to buy incontinence pads.
Surgery can be used to treat moderate to severe stress incontinence.
2Lack of self-restraint.
the emotional incontinence of modern society
Example sentencesExamples
He was a flawed personality who damaged himself and his family by his sexual incontinence.
I didn't stutter or display more than my normal tendencies to verbal incontinence, so I'm about as happy as I could reasonably be expected to be.
Such incontinence, driven by public spending rising faster than the growth in the economy, cannot be controlled for long while keeping taxes down.
Her human awkwardness and emotional incontinence showed in her every gesture.
The newspaper grumbled that doctors, unions, and hospital administrators needed to recognize that "excellence of service is not dependent on utter incontinence in the spending of health dollars."
Aristotle investigates character traits - continence and incontinence - that are not as blameworthy as the vices but not as praiseworthy as the virtues.
Their respect for the captain operated as a check to the incontinence of their passions.
His speech coincided with a report on Ireland's fiscal incontinence.
The report is scathing about the financial incontinence of bankers and consumers but complacent about regulatory failures.
It should be noticed that all three of these deficiencies - continence, incontinence, vice - involve some lack of internal harmony.