• An elimination disorder characterized by urinary incontinence, whether involuntary or intentional, which is not due to a medical condition and which occurs at or beyond an age at which continence is expected (usually 5 years).
  NCI Thesaurus
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• Inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination.
  CRISP Thesaurus
  National Institutes of Health, 2006
• Incontinence of urine during sleep.
  Sadock's Comprehensive Glossary of Psychiatry and Psychology
  BJ Sadock Titles Press, 2012
• Involuntary discharge of URINE after expected age of completed development of urinary control. This can happen during the daytime (DIURNAL ENURESIS) while one is awake or during sleep (NOCTURNAL ENURESIS). Enuresis can be in children or in adults (as persistent primary enuresis and secondary adult-onset enuresis).
  NLM Medical Subject Headings
  U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
• Lack of the ability to control the urinary bladder leading to involuntary urination at an age where control of the bladder should already be possible.
  Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
  The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
• The word enuresis is derived from a Greek word (enourein) that means �to void urine.� The International Children�s Continence Society [ICCS] restricts the term to wetting that occurs at night.
  Medscape
  WebMD, 2019
• Enuresis is defined as normal micturition that occurs at an inappropriate or socially unacceptable time or place. As recommended by the International Children's Continence Society, in this monograph "enuresis" is reserved for micturition during sleep, or bedwetting. Daytime wetting is called "incontinence".
  Epocrates
  Athenahealth, Inc., 2019
• Enuresis, elimination disorder characterized by four factors: the repeated voluntary or involuntary voiding of urine during the day or night into bedding or clothing; two or more occurrences per month for a child between the ages of five and six (one or more for older children); chronological age...
  Encyclopedia Britannica
  Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020