enuresis
noun/ˌenjʊəˈriːsɪs/
/ˌenjʊˈriːsɪs/
[uncountable] (medical)- urination (= letting waste liquid flow from the body) that is not under somebody’s control, especially in the case of a child who is asleepWord Originearly 19th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek enourein ‘urinate in’, from en- ‘in’ + ouron ‘urine’.
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