anuresis en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˌæn.jʊˈɹiːsɪs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌæn.jəˈɹisɪs/ (General-American)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-) Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-)der. English an- English -uresis English anuresis From an- + -uresis.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The inability to urinate; the retention of urine in the bladder.
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.
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, David Foster Wallace, Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments, page vii: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.
2010, Perminder S. Sachdev, Matcheri S. Keshavan, editors, Secondary Schizophrenia, Cambridge University Press, page 235:
Relateds
anuretic · hematuria · oliguria · enuresis · pollakiuria · haematuria · polyuria · dysuria · anuria
Translations (2)
id anuresis (the inability to urinate) · pt anurese (the inability to urinate)