continence

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Polly Weston, co-chair of the Association for Continence Professionals, was pleased that the issue had "finally gained traction".

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2025

Continence should be 95 percent or higher in those without any history of bladder control problems.

From US News • Jan. 28, 2015

So unless you read the Journal of Wound Ostomy & Continence Nursing or the International Journal of Obesity Surgery, you won’t see the happy, internally deodorized Devrom couple.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2013

Nancy Muller, executive director of the National Association for Continence, a nonprofit educational and advocacy group, lauded the ingenuity of the new, less bulky Depend line, but not the campaign.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2012

Continence imposed by the patriarch on his sons within the group, as a condition of his tolerance of their presence, necessarily and logically entailed marriage without, with women from some other group.

From The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)