MICTURITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does micturition mean? 

• MICTURITION (noun)
  The noun MICTURITION has 1 sense:

1. the discharge of urine

  Familiarity information: MICTURITION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MICTURITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The discharge of urine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

micturition; urination

Hypernyms ("micturition" is a kind of...):

elimination; evacuation; excreting; excretion; voiding (the bodily process of discharging waste matter)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "micturition"):

leak; making water; passing water; wetting (a euphemism for urination)

lithuresis (passing small stones with the urine)

nocturia; nycturia (excessive urination at night; especially common in older men)

oliguria (production of an abnormally small amount of urine)

pee; peeing; piss; pissing (informal terms for urination)

Derivation:

micturate (eliminate urine)

 Context examples 

Flavoxate binds and inhibits muscarinic receptors, thereby suppressing the micturition reflex and increases urinary bladder capacity by modifying the micturition center in the brain stem.

(Flavoxate, NCI Thesaurus)

Carbachol is also used to stimulate micturition by contraction of detrusor muscle.

(Carbachol, NCI Thesaurus)