Literary notes about micturate (AI summary)
The term "micturate" is employed in literature with a distinctive technical and clinical tone, frequently appearing in narratives that detail medical procedures and conditions. It is often used to describe both the act and difficulties associated with urination, as seen in descriptions of painful experiences and repeated catheterization routines [1, 2, 3]. Additionally, the word is occasionally woven into more vivid, sometimes humorous, depictions of bodily functions under duress, highlighting the discomfort, strain, and sometimes even the social awkwardness of the situation [4, 5]. This varied use underscores the term's capacity to articulate both the physiological and metaphorical challenges faced by characters in medical and non-medical contexts alike [6, 7, 8, 9, 10].
- Cantharides: in small doses where there is pain along urethra and constant desire to micturate.
— from Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica by Merck & Co. - Preparations were made to catheterize on the morning of the 16th, when the patient after effort became able to micturate.
— from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric ProblemsPresented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard - The catheter should be passed every eight hours for three days, and then the patient should be allowed to micturate on her hands and knees.
— from A System of Operative Surgery, Volume 4 (of 4) - Her laughing face and the idea of a lady holding the utensil for me, took away all power to micturate; I couldn't do it for the life of me.
— from Forbidden Fruit: Luscious and exciting story, and More forbidden fruit; or, Master Percy's progress in and beyond the domestic circle by Anonymous - Take this to heart, ye children of Cain who eat doubloons and micturate water.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac - The symptoms consist of pain, inability to micturate, and the presence of blood in the little fluid which can be drawn by a catheter.
— from Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic medicine and Toxicology. Vol. 1 of 4 by R. A. (Rudolph August) Witthaus - There was also an increased desire to micturate.
— from The Toxicity of Caffein: An experimental study on different species of animals by J. B. (John Benjamin) Rieger - I returned home and tried to keep as comfortable as possible, but could not micturate with any degree of satisfaction or comfort.
— from - To relieve the straining and frequent desire to micturate, which is accompanied with more or less pain, I give:— NO.
— from Femina, A Work for Every Woman by John A. (John Alexander) Miller - The desire to micturate frequently is urgent, the urine is generally bloody, and contains pus.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth
