bladder capacity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbladderandcapacity
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bladder
noun[C]
uk/ˈblæd.ər/us/ˈblæd.ɚ/
an organ like a bag inside the body of a person or animal, where urine is stored before it leaves ...
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capacity
noun
uk/kəˈpæs.ə.ti/us/kəˈpæs.ə.t̬i/
the total amount that can be contained ...
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Three had increases inbladdercapacity, a fall in bladder pressure at capacity and increase in urethral pressure.
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They are usually performed with filling cystometry which gives information about sensation,bladdercapacity, compliance, the presence or absence of detrusor instability and incontinence.
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This will easily identify those patients with polyuria, but a normalbladdercapacity, which may simply be related to excess fluid intake.
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This exceeds thebladdercapacityof the elderly person and leads to greater night-time than daytime micturition frequency.
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Only 34% of patients who were tested with a bladder volume of 75% of cystometricbladdercapacityfound that the leakage experienced during the test was representative of their incontinence.
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Jakobsen et al.31 found that there were no statistical differences with a pre-test filling of 50% or 75% of cystometricbladdercapacity.
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However, subjectively it was found that with a bladder volume of 50% cystometricbladdercapacitythe patients (58%) felt that the results reflected the leakage experienced in daily life.
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Hanfmann et al.25 meanwhile mention a reduction inbladdercapacityduring radiotherapy to the prostate, without drawing conclusions as to long-term implications or subsequent potential risk of bladder cancer.
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Bladdercapacityis reduced, and the wall becomes hypertrophied.
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Further symptoms include dysuria, reducedbladdercapacityand pain the lower abdomen.
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In chronic retention, ultrasound of the bladder may show massive increase inbladdercapacity(normal capacity is 400-600 ml).
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