{"id":134104,"date":"2021-11-11T07:29:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T07:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/?p=134104"},"modified":"2023-08-29T11:06:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T11:06:18","slug":"artificial-sphincter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/artificial-sphincter\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial sphincter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An artificial device designed to correct incontinence. Sphincters are the rings of muscle that narrow or close off a passageway by contracting. Two common sphincters are located at the anus and at the opening from the bladder to the urethra. Because the efficiency of muscle sphincters declines with age, the inability to control the passage of urine or feces\u00a0most frequently occurs in older people. Artificial urinary sphincters have been successfully used to treat urinary incontinence since the 1970s. 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Sphincters are the rings of muscle that narrow or close off a passageway by contracting. Two common sphincters are located at the anus and at the opening from the bladder to the urethra. Because the efficiency of muscle sphincters declines with age, the inability to control the passage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Artificial sphincter - Definition of Artificial sphincter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An artificial device designed to correct incontinence. Sphincters are the rings of muscle that narrow or close off a passageway by contracting. 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