Excessive urination during the night.

Excessive urination during the night.

• A. Dysuria
• B. Nocturia
• C. Diuresis
• D. Nocturnal Enuresis

Answer: (B)

Nocturia is the need to wake and urinate during the night. That description fits because the issue is waking up at night to urinate, not necessarily about pain or daytime urination. Diuresis means increased urine production in general, which can happen any time, not specifically at night. Dysuria is painful or difficult urination, which is a different symptom. Nocturnal enuresis is involuntary urination during sleep (bedwetting), which is about incontinence during sleep rather than the act of waking to void.

Nocturia is the need to wake and urinate during the night. That description fits because the issue is waking up at night to urinate, not necessarily about pain or daytime urination.

Diuresis means increased urine production in general, which can happen any time, not specifically at night. Dysuria is painful or difficult urination, which is a different symptom. Nocturnal enuresis is involuntary urination during sleep (bedwetting), which is about incontinence during sleep rather than the act of waking to void.