micturition
pronunciation
How to pronounce micturition in British English:
UK [ˌmɪktjʊ'rɪʃn]
How to pronounce micturition in American English:
US [ˌmɪktjʊ'rɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- the discharge of urine
Word Origin
- micturition (n.)
- 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.
Example
- 1. Always control micturition , cause urinary incontinence .
- 2. Does nerve frequent micturition need to cure what ?
- 3. Don 't force baby micturition .
- 4. Experts suggest , squat micturition is chronic prostatitis one of the treatment measures .
- 5. Rhythm of the electromyogram of external urethral sphincter during micturition in rats .