Partial or complete loss of control of urination.
Inability to control the passage of urine, semen, or feces due to one or more physiologic or psychological conditions.
Lacking voluntary control over the bladder and bowel. In most people can be treated and controlled, if not cured. Specific changes in body function, often resulting from disease or use of medications or other drugs.
The inability to control the discharge of urine or faeces.
Inability to control the release of urine from the bladder and of feces from the bowels, including inability to sense fullness, to empty thoroughly, and to close completely. Incontinence can have a variety of causes. Among toilet-trained children (as well as adults), short-term bouts of incontinence can occur as a result of local inflammation in the anus or urethra, temporary damage to the muscles in the area (as after childbirth or surgery), infection (such as that which causes diarrhea), or physical stress, as in heavy athletic activity. In children, long-term or permanent incontinence most often occurs as a result of damage to the nervous system or to muscles in the area, as in cases of spina bifida or paraplegia. The procedure of clean, intermittent catheterization helps such children handle bladder-emptying functions. By contrast, bedwetting (enuresis) and soiling (encopresis) are not the result of physical damage alone, though some physical factors may be involved.
The inappropriate involuntary passage of urine, resulting in wetting. Stress incontinence is the leakage of urine on coughing and straining. It is common in women in whom the muscles of the pelvic floor are weakened after childbirth. Overflow incontinence is leakage from a full bladder, which occurs most commonly in old men with bladder outflow obstruction or in patients with neurological conditions affecting bladder control. Urge incontinence is leakage of urine that accompanies an intense desire to pass water with failure of restraint.
Inability to control the flow of urine from the bladder (urinary incontinence) or the escape of stool from the rectum (fecal incontinence).
The condition characterized by the body’s incapacity to regulate bodily functions, typically pertaining to urinary functions such as voiding or urine control, is referred to as the inability to control bodily functions or urinary incontinence.
Inability to regulate the release of urine or feces.