urge incontinence

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Related to urge incontinence: overflow incontinence, stress incontinence, reflex incontinence, functional incontinence

urge incontinence

Leakage of urine from the bladder that accompanies an insistent need to urinate. Also called urgency incontinence.

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urge incontinence - urinary incontinence that is generally attributable to involuntary contracts of the bladder muscle resulting in an urgent need to urinate accompanied by a sudden loss of urine; most common in people over 60 years of age

enuresis, urinary incontinence - inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination

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