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continence

[kon-tn-uhns] / ˈkɒn tn əns /


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At other times, staff failed to change continence aids regularly enough.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2025

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

From Washington Post Jan. 29, 2023

Unknown to her daughters, the hospital had also placed her in continence pads.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2022

He had for many years led a solitary life, in great continence of body and mind, in a very small island, called Farne,741 in the ocean about nine miles distant from that same church.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Cuthbert Bede




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