micturition

micturition

English

Etymology

From Latin micturio (“to urinate”).

Noun

micturition (countable and uncountable, plural micturitions)

1. (physiology) urination
   • 2020 January 2, Dr Mike Esbester, “Waste disposal...”, in Rail, page 36:

     For those unlucky enough to be on a service without lavatory provision, we can only speculate as to how passengers improvised if caught short. For men, it might be possible to urinate, albeit at the risk of offending fellow passengers - there were reports of passengers being hauled up before the courts for 'micturition' in coaches during the 19th century.

Derived terms

• intermicturition

Related terms

• micturate
• micturitional

Translations

physiology: urination

Chinese: Mandarin: 排尿 (zh) (páiniào), 撒尿 (zh) (sāniào), 泌尿 (zh) (mìniào) Czech: močení n Finnish: virtsaaminen (fi) French: miction (fr) f German: Miktion (de) f, Urinieren n, Harnlassen n Hebrew: השתנה‎ (he) f (ha'shta'na) Hungarian: vizelés (hu) Italian: minzione (it) f Japanese: 排尿 (ja) (はいにょう, hainyō), 放尿 (ja) (ほうにょう, hōnyō) Portuguese: micção (pt) f Russian: мочеиспуска́ние (ru) n (močeispuskánije) Swedish: urinering (sv) c

References

• “micturition”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.