spastic bladder
- noun
- /ˈspæstɪk ˈblædər/
- Specialized
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vejiga espástica
- People with spastic bladder may experience frequent and involuntary urination.
Examples
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It's a growth industry, really, because one in three people over 60... ...either have a flaccid or a spastic bladder... ...so, in a sense, every 13.5 seconds, a new incontinent is born, as it were.
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The patient was diagnosed with spastic bladder following her spinal cord injury.
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Many people with a spastic bladder experience incontinence due to nerve damage.
Synonyms
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A bladder problem caused by nerve damage that makes it hard to pee
A health problem that makes the bladder hold or let out urine badly
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally predictable: 'spastic' (prone to spasms) modifying 'bladder' (the urinary organ) yields a bladder affected by spasms, which explains symptoms like interrupted urination or incontinence. While full clinical details require medical knowledge, the core meaning is directly derivable from the constituent words and is cross-linguistically transparent.
Etymology
Spastic bladder comes from spastic (from the word 'spasm', a sudden muscle movement) and bladder (the organ that holds urine). If the bladder muscles 'spasm' they squeeze at the wrong time and cause sudden or 'involuntary' urination, so the term describes a bladder that cannot control urine, often after nerve injury.