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The discharge of urine
Answer for the clue "The discharge of urine ", 11 letters:
micturition
Word definitions for micturition in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the discharge of urine [syn: urination ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context physiology English) urination
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Micturition \Mic`tu*ri"tion\, n. [L. micturire to desire to make water, v. desid. fr. mingere, mictum, to make water.] The act of voiding urine; urination; also, a morbidly frequent passing of the urine, in consequence of disease.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1725, "the need very badly to urinate," from Latin micturitum , from past participle of micturire "to desire to urinate," desiderative of mingere "to urinate," from PIE *meigh- "to urinate" (cognates: Sanskrit mehati "urinates;" Avestan maezaiti "urinates;" ...
Usage examples of micturition.
Then a pain suddenly went through my groin, as it sometimes does when micturition is too long withheld, but so intensely hurtfully that, not meaning to, I let at least a brief spurt of urine.
In October she was kept in bed for two days by abdominal pain, which reappeared in November, and was then associated with pain in micturition and defecation.
There is a case reported of a man whose testicles were completely torn away, and the perineal urethra so much injured that micturition took place through the wound.
Also every likelihood of decubitus ulcers, lifelong fecal impaction and incomplete micturition.