Editing Functional: Overactive Bladder (section)

== Terminology and definitions ==

* '''Definition of urgency: the complaint of a sudden compelling desire to void that is difficult to defer'''
* '''Definition of urgency urinary incontinence (UUI):''' '''involuntary leakage of urine, accompanied or immediately preceded by urgency'''
* '''Definition of increased daytime frequency: subjective complaint by the patient who considers that he or she voids too often by day'''
* '''Definition of nocturia: the complaint that the individual has to wake at night one or more times to void'''
* '''Definition of OAB: urinary urgency, with or without urgency incontinence, usually with increased daytime frequency and nocturia, in the absence of infection or other obvious pathology.'''
** '''OAB is a symptomatic diagnosis and is distinct from detrusor overactivity, which is a urodynamic observation.'''
** OAB can coexist with stress urinary incontinence (SUI).
* '''Definition of mixed urinary incontinence (MUI): involuntary leakage associated with urgency and with exertion, effort, sneezing, or coughing.'''
** '''Thus in MUI, both SUI and urgency incontinence (“OAB wet”) are present in the same person. A person with SUI and “OAB dry” does not have MUI'''