URINARY RETENTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does urinary retention mean? 

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

1. holding urine in the urinary bladder

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• URINARY RETENTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Holding urine in the urinary bladder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

he has a problem with urinary retention

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

retention; retentiveness; retentivity (the power of retaining liquid)

 Context examples 

Methylnaltrexone displaces opioids from peripheral opioid receptors in the gastrointestinal tract, the bladder, and the skin, thereby reversing the opioid-related peripheral side-effects, such as constipation, urinary retention, and pruritis, respectively.

(Methylnaltrexone bromide, NCI Thesaurus)

Methylnaltrexone displaces opioids from peripheral opioid receptors in the gastrointestinal tract, the bladder, and the skin, resulting in decreases in opioid-related constipation, urinary retention, and pruritis, respectively.

(Methylnaltrexone, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include nausea, vomiting, severe abdominal pain and distension, urinary retention, port-wine urine discoloration, hypertension, tachycardia, muscle weakness, loss of sensation, anxiety, depression, and arm, leg and back pain.

(Acute Intermittent Porphyria, NCI Thesaurus)