Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to urine, its production, function, or excretion.
  • adjective Of or relating to the organs involved in the formation and excretion of urine.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to urine or the organs connected with the secretion and discharge of urine.
  • noun In agriculture, a reservoir or place for the reception of urine, etc., for manure.
  • noun Same as urinal, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A urinarium; also, a urinal.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the urine.
  • adjective Resembling, or being of the nature of, urine.
  • adjective (Med.) a concretion composed of some one or more crystalline constituents of the urine, liable to be found in any portion of the urinary passages or in the pelvis of the kidney.
  • adjective (Physiol. Chem.) certain colored substances, urochrome, or urobilin, uroerythrin, etc., present in the urine together with indican, a colorless substance which by oxidation is convertible into colored bodies.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Pertaining to urine, its production, function, or excretion.
  • adjective Of or relating to the organs involved in the formation and excretion of urine.
  • noun archaic A place for urinating; a urinal.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to the urinary system of the body
  • adjective of or relating to the function or production or secretion of urine

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Examples

  • Secondary indicators of efficacy included restoration of red cell ALA-D activity, an enzyme necessary for heme synthesis, and a reduction in urinary ALA and coproporphyrin.

    Succimer 2010

  • Blood urinary is the worst thing with kidney infection, because it will make you have the urge to urine very frequently, almost every 2 to 3 minutes, and the urine sensation is very painful.

    Australia Sucks Pt.2 Jerine 2008

  • When the inability to control leakage becomes problematic, it is called urinary incontinence UI.

    OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

  • Even since 1776 when Scheele found uric acid in urinary calculus, several substances closely related to it such as xanthine, adenine and guanine, etc. have been detected in animal secretions.

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1902 - Presentation Speech 1966

  • This complicates treatment decisions, because surgery and other therapies for prostate cancer carry risks -- including long-term urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • This complicates treatment decisions, because surgery and other therapies for prostate cancer carry risks -- including long-term urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Yet another dose of antibiotics may not be the best course of action with a long-term urinary tract infection.

    Life and style | guardian.co.uk Dr Tom Smith 2010

  • This complicates treatment decisions, because surgery and other therapies for prostate cancer carry risks -- including long-term urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • This complicates treatment decisions, because surgery and other therapies for prostate cancer carry risks -- including long-term urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • The participants were asked to recall their urinary and erectile dysfunction symptoms before and after surgery.

    Weight-loss surgery may ease incontinence in women 2011

  • “We reckon we’ve lost 50% of all [standalone public] toilets across the country in the last 10 years. It’s a crisis situation.” It isn’t just disabled people and those with chronic illness who are affected, though the impact on them is disproportionately high, but all of us – older people, those with continence issues, pregnant women, toddlers, homeless people, those of us who suddenly just really need a wee. It affects taxi drivers, delivery drivers and outdoor workers. For those who need to know where the nearest loo is, it can tether us close to home or a small area, known as the “urinary leash”.

    The urinary leash: how the death of public toilets traps and trammels us all Emine Saner 2021

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