Definitions for enuresis

enuresis en·u·re·sis

Spelling: [en-yuh-ree-sis]
IPA: /ˌɛn yəˈri sɪs/

Enuresis is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in enuresis (eeinrssu).

Definitions for enuresis

noun

  1. lack of control of urination, especially during sleep; bed-wetting; urinary incontinence.

Origin of enuresis

1790-1800; New Latin Greek en- en-2 + ourē- (variant stem of oureîn to urinate) + -sis -sis

Examples for enuresis

There are certain points in the behaviour of a child with enuresis which seem to point to this conclusion.

In his dormitory at school was a boy who had enuresis, and who was being fined and punished by the schoolmaster.

I mention convulsive attacks and enuresis nocturna, as pathological affections of her childhood which belong to my theme.

What enuresis signifies in this case is, from the Freudian standpoint, not difficult to understand.

In the later repression the pleasure in the enuresis as well as in the being taken up by the mother becomes a dysuria psychica.

I remembered my wise old woman, and asked: "When did the enuresis return?"

It is said that enuresis may be due to a deficiency of the thyroid secretion, and that it can be cured by thyroid extract.

We must drop it for quite three weeks, to give the enuresis a chance to stop.

It is the invariable experience that the enuresis then promptly stops.

The enuresis at once reappeared and continued unchecked so long as he was at school.

Word Value for enuresis
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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