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It is a formal term used in medical contexts to refer to the act of urination. Example: "The patient reported difficulty with micturition, prompting further examination." Alternatives include "urination" and "voiding."
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micturition
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Urination
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A gentle coursing of water can be ordered up to hide the sounds of micturition (a particular favourite among women users, the makers say).Above all, the Toto Neorest (pictured) excels at the bidet functions.
It may show the reflux of urine from the bladder upward into the ureters or kidneys on micturition.
This bladder becomes greatly distended; the detrusor relaxes and reflex micturition is abolished.
Pain associated with urination (dysuria) can arise from bladder distension, which is then relieved by effective micturition; from inflammation of the lower urinary tract, commonly due to infection but rarely caused by chemical irritants in the urine; and from mechanical irritation by tumour or during the passage of stones.
Once begun, micturition is carried through to completion by lower and higher centres acting in concert; sensory messages from the urine-distended urethra also play a part.
Thus voluntary initiation and control of micturition is effected partly by an active process of stimulating parasympathetic sacral nerve outflow, partly by removing the normal inhibition exerted by the higher centres on the reflex centres in the spinal cord.
Certain reflexes combine to ensure both maintenance of a steady holding state for urine and normal progressive micturition with complete emptying.
Voluntary micturition begins with willed messages from the brain that reach the bladder via the motor fibres of the pelvic nerves to stimulate the detrusor, at the same time actively relaxing both urethral sphincters.
The urethra normally contains no urine except during the act of micturition, its walls remaining apposed by muscle tone.
In micturition the longitudinal muscle of the bladder shortens to widen the bladder neck and allow urine to enter the urethra.
(Frequency of micturition aside, Plummer proved he's anything but gaga when he wandered up to accept his statuette; still, he's the oldest actor ever to get one).
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