Enzo, a 56-year-old man, woke up on a chilly morning with the feeling that he needed to urinate. As he was reluctant to get out of bed, Enzo distracted himself by reading online news stories on his iPad until the urge to urinate returned sometime later. When he went to the toilet to relieve himself, it took a while to empty his bladder due to the slow urine stream. Explain how Enzo was able to delay going to the toilet when he first felt the urge to urinate, and the process involved in eliminating urine from his body when the time was right.

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