The power of retaining liquid

Usage examples of retention.

The third was retention enema, using a double Bardex, with me on the table in the knee to chest position.

It would have been an entirely intimidating personage if not for the retention, albeit furless, of grossly oversize ears.

In spite of this, however, they are in great part dependent on the absorption of water through the general surface of the shoot, and the power of rapid imbibition possessed by their cell-walls, the crowded position of the small leaves on the stem, and special adaptations for the retention of water on the surface, have the same significance as in the foliose liverworts.

Indeed, the particular cause of the differences was easy enough to identify: it was neoteny, the retention into adulthood of childhood characteristics.

I have to take a dozen different drugs to prevent reabsorption of calcium from my bone, collapse of my circulatory system, fluid retention, all the bad stuff micro-gravity does to unedited Earth stock.

But when this period arrives and the menstrual discharge takes place into the vagina, the female will suffer from the retention and accumulation of this secretion, and ultimately a tumor or a protrusion of the membrane which closes the vagina will occur, giving rise to severe pain and other serious symptoms.

Thanks to your ascension to full Reigning Masterhood and my retention of title, we have entered a new, unprecedented age.

Retention of the menses may result from malformation of the vaginal canal, which sometimes terminates before it reaches the womb, being simply a short, closed sac.

The late-seventeenth-century observer Thomas Morer believed that retention of the maiden name implied that Scottish women were more independent of their husbands than was the case in England.

Sodium retention can contribute to PMS headaches, bloating, edema, and fluid weight gain during the premenstrual phase of your cycle.

Harsh, dry, yellow skin, purpuric spots with ecchymoses under the skin and mucous membranes, retention or suppression of urine, delirium, convulsions, coma, and death.

There is an instance recorded of the death of a fetus occurring near term, its retention and subsequent discharge being through a spontaneous opening in the abdominal wall one or two months after.

The prominent symptoms of retroflexion of the uterus are a sense of weight in the region of the rectum, difficulty in evacuating the bowels, and, sometimes a retention of the feces.

The municipality assumes no more direct responsibility for the due devotion of the Stadt-Theater to dramatic art than is implied in its retention of reversionary rights of ownership.

There is also the question of broadscale work in the area of water retention that can be done as restoration projects.