stress incontinence

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   urinary incontinence that occurs when involuntary pressure is put on the bladder by coughing or laughing or sneezing or lifting or straining

   Broaderenuresis

Questions about stress incontinence

What does stress incontinence mean?

stress incontinence means "urinary incontinence that occurs when involuntary pressure is put on the bladder by coughing or laughing or sneezing or lifting or straining".

Is stress incontinence a common word?

stress incontinence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.