Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See uremia, uremic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Accumulation in the blood of the principles of the urine, producing dangerous disease.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
uremia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun accumulation in the blood of nitrogenous waste products (urea) that are usually excreted in the urine
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Examples
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When, thanks to the faultless ministrations of Françoise, my grandmother had been put to bed, she discovered that she could speak much more easily, the little rupture or obstruction of a blood-vessel which had produced the uraemia having apparently been quite slight.
The Guermantes Way 2003
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Medically, however little hope there might be of setting any limit to this attack of uraemia, it did not do to tire the kidneys.
The Guermantes Way 2003
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In itself, uraemia is not necessarily fatal, but this case seems to me desperate.
The Guermantes Way 2003
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An attack of uraemia, by no means serious, had led to his being ordered to rest.
The Captive 2003
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As far as I was concerned it could have been for longer because for the first time in months my uraemia was gone.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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As far as I was concerned it could have been for longer because for the first time in months my uraemia was gone.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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TOM A. WILLIAMS, Washington, D. C.: Will Dr. Clark explain the eccentric convulsions such as when there is uraemia, on similar grounds?
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At first the news was not believed, but by eleven o'clock it was definitely known in the Legation Quarter that he had died a few minutes after ten o'clock that morning from uraemia of the blood -- the surgeon of the French Legation being in attendance almost to the last.
The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903
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That's due to uraemia, a sequel of Bright's disease. '
Leonora Arnold Bennett 1899
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Ingrosso D, Cimmino A, Perna AF, Masella L, De Santo NG, et al. (2003) Folate treatment and unbalanced methylation and changes of allelic expression induced by hyperhomocysteinaemia in patients with uraemia.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mehregan Movassagh et al. 2010
chained_bear commented on the word uraemia
Sp. uremia in U.S.
September 11, 2008