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micturition
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
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;" Greek omeikhein "to urinate;" Armenian mizem "urinate;" Lithuanian minžu "urinate;" Old English migan "to urinate," micga "urine," meox "dung, filth"). As during the final 20 minutes of a 4-hour film after drinking a 32-ounce Mountain Dew from the snack bar and the movie ends with a drawn-out farewell scene while Frodo is standing on the pier and wavelets lap audibly on the dock the whole time as if the director was a sadist set on compounding your torment.
Wiktionary
n. (context physiology English) urination
WordNet
n. the discharge of urine [syn: urination]
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.