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Micturition

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Urination, the act of urinating.

The word 'micturition' comes from the Latin 'micturire' which has a slightly different meaning, namely 'to want to urinate.'</P> [A contribution entitled 'Fetal Micturition' to The New England Journal of Medicine (338:170) shows ultrasound images of a fetus urinating at 32 weeks of gestation!]

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