continence
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The brain’s ability to regulate bodily functions, like swallowing and continence, erodes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2025
When treating the prostate gland, for example, medics want to avoid damage to the nearby bladder or rectum, which could leave patients with lifelong continence issues.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2023
Any chance Sally or Ed has anxiety, digestive or continence issues, hearing loss …?
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2023
Prof June Andrews, who has worked in dementia care for over 30 years, says rigorous continence assessments are essential to prevent assumptions being made.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2022
He employed the time in exhorting his followers--there were only fifty of them--to behave with continence to the conquered foe.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
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