urination

Also known as weeing, emiction, taking a piss, urinating, peeing, GO:0060073, piss, tinkling

Urination is the release of urine from the bladder through the urethra in placental mammals, or through the cloaca in other vertebrates. It is the urinary system's form of excretion. It is also known medically as micturition, voiding, uresis, or, rarely, emiction, and known colloquially by various names including peeing, weeing, pissing, and euphemistically number one. The process of urination is under voluntary control in healthy humans and other animals, but may occur as a reflex in infants, some elderly individuals, and those with neurological injury. It is normal for adult humans to urinat

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Urination is the body's process of releasing urine from the bladder through the urethra, which is how the urinary system gets rid of waste products. This process is normally under voluntary control in healthy adults, though it can occur involuntarily in infants, elderly individuals, and those with certain neurological conditions.

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Droplets generated from toilets during urination as a possible vehicle of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2021Arena F, Coda ARD, Meschini V et al.DOI: 10.1186/s13756-021-01023-5
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Toilet-based continuous health monitoring using urine.ReviewNature reviews. Urology · 2022Tasoglu SDOI: 10.1038/s41585-021-00558-x
Toilet hygiene-review and research needs.ReviewJournal of applied microbiology · 2021Abney SE, Bright KR, McKinney J et al.DOI: 10.1111/jam.15121

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Contents

Anatomy and physiology
Anatomy of the bladder and outlet
Physiology
Storage phase
Voiding phase
Voluntary control
Experience of urination
Disorders
Clinical conditions
Experimentally induced disorders
Deafferentation
Denervation
Spinal cord injury
Techniques
Male urination
Female urination
Babies and children
Fetal urination
Alternative urination tools
Social and cultural aspects
Art
Toilet training
Facilities
Urination without facilities
Talking about urination
Use in language
Urination and sexual activity
In humans
In other animals
Electric shock injuries and deaths
Other species
See also
References
Further reading
External links

In some animals, in addition to expelling waste material, urination can mark territory or express submissiveness. Physiologically, urination involves coordination between the central, autonomic, and somatic nervous systems. Brain centres that regulate urination include the pontine micturition center, periaqueductal gray, and the cerebral cortex.