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continence

[kon-tn-uhns] / ˈkɒn tn əns /


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The brain’s ability to regulate bodily functions, like swallowing and continence, erodes.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2025

A mother who feared her two-year-old son's untreated constipation could have killed him is calling for access to children's continence services to be made a national priority.

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2025

Any chance Sally or Ed has anxiety, digestive or continence issues, hearing loss …?

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2023

Bessie should have been referred to the Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust's continence team but never was.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2022

They married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they maintained, of Abel, and attempted to keep up the sect by adopting the children of others.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various




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