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Urinary Incontinence

"Urinary Incontinence" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Involuntary loss of URINE, such as leaking of urine. It is a symptom of various underlying pathological processes. Major types of incontinence include URINARY URGE INCONTINENCE and URINARY STRESS INCONTINENCE.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Urinary Incontinence" by people in this website by year, and whether "Urinary Incontinence" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 162 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 14 publications in 2009
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