different between inability vs anuresis

English

Etymology

From earlier inhability (“disqualification for office”), equivalent to in- +? hability. Compare Middle French inhabilité, Medieval Latin inhabilit?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n??b?l?ti/

Noun

inability (countable and uncountable, plural inabilities)

1. Lack of the ability to do something; incapability.
   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille (in The Guardian, 26 November 2013)[1]

     The Premier League leaders did what many people thought was beyond them in their last European excursion, at the home of Borussia Dortmund, and they made light work of overcoming Marseille on a night when the one-sidedness was not reflected by their inability to add to Jack Wilshere's two goals.

2. Lack of the option to do something; powerlessness.

Synonyms

• unability

Translations

English

Etymology

an- +? uresis

Noun

anuresis (uncountable)

1. (medicine) The inability to urinate; the retention of urine in the bladder.
   • 2010, Perminder S. Sachdev, Matcheri S. Keshavan (editors), Secondary Schizophrenia, Cambridge University Press, page 235,

     Kaido [35] describes a 53-year-old Japanese lady whose index presentation was with vomiting, anuresis, and clouded conscious state on a background of 6 months of apathy.

   • 2012 March, Paul Nikolaidis, Nancy A. Hammond (guest editors), Frank H. Miller (consulting editor), Genitourinary Imaging, Radiologic Clinics of North America, Volume 50, Number 2, unnumbered page,

     Although rare, symptoms may include lumbar or hip pain, dysuria, oliguria, anuresis, and, more rarely, hematuria and pollakiuria.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with enuresis (“bed-wetting”) and anuria (“failure to produce urine”).

Related terms

• anuretic

Translations

See also

• anuria
• enuresis
• dysuria
• haematuria / hematuria
• oliguria
• pollakiuria
• polyuria

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