Usually means: Inability to voluntarily pass urine.
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▸ noun:  (medicine) The inability to urinate; the retention of urine in the bladder.

Similar:
anuria, incontinence, continence, nitrituria, irretention, incontinency, continency, acyesis, renitence, unvirility, more...

Opposite:
enuresis

Types:
diuresis, oliguria, anuria, polyuria, more...

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Similar:
anuria, incontinence, continence, nitrituria, irretention, incontinency, continency, acyesis, renitence, unvirility, more...

Opposite:
enuresis

Types:
diuresis, oliguria, anuria, polyuria, more...



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