urinary hesitancy

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   difficulty in beginning the flow of urine; associated with prostate enlargement in men and with narrowing of the urethral opening in women; may be caused by emotional stress in either men or women

   Broaderdifficulty

Questions about urinary hesitancy

What does urinary hesitancy mean?

urinary hesitancy means "difficulty in beginning the flow of urine; associated with prostate enlargement in men and with narrowing of the urethral opening in women; may be caused by emotional stress in either men or women".

Is urinary hesitancy a common word?

urinary hesitancy 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.