URINARY HESITANCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does urinary hesitancy mean? 

• URINARY HESITANCY (noun)
  The noun URINARY HESITANCY has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: URINARY HESITANCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• URINARY HESITANCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("urinary hesitancy" is a kind of...):

difficulty (a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome)