Frequent Urination (Polyuria) in Spanish

What it means

Frequent urination means needing to urinate more often than usual. MedlinePlus covers it together with urgent urination, a sudden, strong need to urinate, and says a need to urinate at night is called nocturia. Common causes of these symptoms include a urinary tract infection, an enlarged prostate in middle-aged and older men, and caffeine intake; less common causes include pregnancy and diabetes that is not well controlled. MedlinePlus describes a voiding diary, a record of the times a person urinates and the amount of urine produced, to bring to the visit. Polyuria is a separate term: MedlinePlus gives it as the alternative name for an excessive amount of urination and says that problem is different from needing to urinate often. In Spanish the term is micción frecuente.

Frequent Urination (Polyuria) in Spanish

Spanish term: Micción frecuente
Gender and article: feminine: la micción frecuente
Pronunciation: meek-SYOHN freh-KWEHN-teh

Other Spanish terms	Where it is used	Note
frecuencia urinaria	General	MedlinePlus en español prints it in the joint form "Frecuencia o urgencia urinaria" among the alternative names of its article on micción frecuente.

Micción frecuente is the wording of MedlinePlus en español, which defines it as the need to urinate more often than usual in an article titled Micción urgente o frecuente. The Spanish dictionary marks micción as a feminine noun and defines it as the act of urinating, so the article is la: la micción. The MedlinePlus definition itself uses the verb orinar, and the article lists Frecuencia o urgencia urinaria among its alternative names. A need to urinate during the night is nicturia in that article.

The English headword adds "polyuria" in parentheses, but MedlinePlus keeps the two apart. Poliuria is the alternative name of a separate article, Cantidad excesiva - micción, about the body producing larger than normal amounts of urine each day, and that article says the problem is different from having to urinate often (distinto a tener que orinar a menudo). That second article writes nocturia for getting up during the night to urinate. The record of times and amounts is a diario de urinación.

Phrases for an appointment

What a patient or a clinician might say, in English and Spanish:

Who	English	Spanish
Patient	I have to urinate much more often than usual.	Tengo que orinar mucho más seguido de lo usual.
Clinician	How many times do you get up at night to urinate?	¿Cuántas veces se levanta por la noche para orinar?
Patient	Three or four times, and I urinate only a little each time.	Tres o cuatro veces, y cada vez orino solo un poco.
Clinician	Do you feel a sudden, strong need to urinate?	¿Siente una necesidad repentina y fuerte de orinar?
Clinician	Have you noticed more thirst than usual, or blood in your urine?	¿Ha notado más sed de lo usual, o sangre en la orina?
Patient	I wrote down the times I urinated and how much, as you asked.	Anoté las horas en que oriné y la cantidad, como me pidió.
Clinician	I am going to order a urinalysis and a urine culture.	Voy a pedirle un análisis de orina y un urocultivo.
Clinician	Contact us right away if you have fever, back or side pain, vomiting, or shaking chills.	Comuníquese con nosotros de inmediato si tiene fiebre, dolor de espalda o en los costados, vómitos o escalofríos.

In 9 languages

Language	Term
English	Frequent Urination (Polyuria)
Spanish (Español)	Micción frecuente
Chinese (中文)	頻尿
Korean (한국어)	빈뇨
Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt)	Tiểu nhiều lần
Filipino (Tagalog)	Madalas na pag-ihi
Portuguese (Português)	Urinar frequentemente
Thai (ภาษาไทย)	ปัสสาวะบ่อย
Japanese (日本語)	頻尿

Where you'll see it

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Related ICD-10-CM category

ICD-10-CM code: R35 → Polyuria

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Your right to an interpreter in the United States

If English is not your primary language and you have difficulty communicating in English, you may need an interpreter or a translated document when you visit a doctor or dentist, go to the emergency room or pick up a prescription. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights states that two federal laws, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, require programs that receive its funding to provide language access services free of charge.

You can ask when you make the appointment or at the front desk: "I need an interpreter, please." «Necesito un intérprete, por favor.»

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