urinary hesitancy
- noun
- /ˈjʊrɪˌnɛri ˈhɛzɪtənsi/
- Specialized
:
hesitación urinaria
- Older men often experience urinary hesitancy due to prostate enlargement.
Examples
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The patient reported urinary hesitancy after starting the new medication.
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Many elderly patients suffer from urinary hesitancy.
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Stress can sometimes cause urinary hesitancy, even in otherwise healthy individuals.
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He experiences urinary hesitancy frequently.
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Older men often experience urinary hesitancy due to prostate enlargement.
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The patient reported urinary hesitancy after starting the new medication.
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Stress can sometimes cause urinary hesitancy, even in otherwise healthy individuals.
How Easily
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
urinary + hesitancy
The meaning is directly compositional: 'urinary' relates to urine/urination and 'hesitancy' denotes hesitation or delay, so together they indicate a delay or difficulty in starting urine flow. This medical collocation follows straightforward semantic combination (and similar constructions exist in other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both words would likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
Urinary hesitancy paints a simple picture: urinary is about urine and hesitancy means a pause, like a tap that won't start, so the phrase describes 'difficulty or delay in starting the flow of urine'.
