urinary retention

1. 1.

   holding urine in the urinary bladder

   “he has a problem with urinary retention”

   Broaderretentiveness

Questions about urinary retention

What does urinary retention mean?

urinary retention means "holding urine in the urinary bladder".

Is urinary retention a common word?

urinary retention 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.