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 , orurobilin ,uroerythrin , etc., present in the urine together withindican , 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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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This complicates treatment decisions, because surgery and other therapies for prostate cancer carry risks -- including long-term urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction.
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This complicates treatment decisions, because surgery and other therapies for prostate cancer carry risks -- including long-term urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction.
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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
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This complicates treatment decisions, because surgery and other therapies for prostate cancer carry risks -- including long-term urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction.
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This complicates treatment decisions, because surgery and other therapies for prostate cancer carry risks -- including long-term urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction.
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The participants were asked to recall their urinary and erectile dysfunction symptoms before and after surgery.
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“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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