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urea

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the chief solid component of mammalian urine; synthesized from ammonia and carbon dioxide and used as fertilizer and in animal feed and in plastics [syn: carbamide ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
compound found in the urine of animals, 1806, Latinized from French urée (1803), from Greek ouron "urine" (see urine ).

Usage examples of urea.

That the urea, which was not perfectly white, should have contained a sufficient quantity of albuminous matter, or of some salt of ammonia, to have caused the above effect, is far from surprising, for, as we shall see in the next chapter, astonishingly small doses of ammonia are highly efficient.

If someone had asked her, Crozie could not have explained that urea, which was the major component of urine, would decompose, become ammoniacal, in a warm environment.

Measurements of blood sugar, serum amylase, serum acetone, bilirubin, and blood urea nitrogen were normal.

In one breath, without removing the bowl from her lips, Tulla drinks the fatless spleen-heart-kidney-liver broth with all its granular delicacies and surprises, with the tiny bits of cartilage at the bottom, with Koshnavian marjoram and coagulated urea.

Sugars, acetone bodies, creatine, nitrogenous compounds, haemoglobin, myoglobin, amino acids and metabolites, uric acid, urea, urobilinogen and coproporphyrins, bile pigments, minerals, fats, and of course a great variety of psychotropic drugs: certainly all of the ones proscribed by the US Federal Bureau of Narcotics.

Carlisle mentions a case in which there was vomiting of a fluid containing urea and having the sensible properties of urine.

Two other summits, with their glands colourless and their utricles not shrunk, were treated with the same solution of urea.

This leaf was now immersed in a little solution of one part of urea to 146 of water, or three grains to the ounce.

This quantity usually holds in solution about one ounce of urea, and ten or twelve grains of uric acid.

The acute form of the disease is very rapid in its progress, often destroying life by uraemic poisoning--the retention of urea in the system.

Urine contains about 4 per cent solids - urea, common salt, phosphates, sulphates, potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, uric acid, ammonia etc.

Two other summits, with their glands colourless and their utricles not shrunk, were treated with the same solution of urea.

Drosera, 2 , coats of pollengrains not digested by insects, 117 Binz, on action of quinine on white bloodcorpuscles, 201 , on poisonous action of quinine on low organisms, 202 Bone, its digestion by Drosera, 105 Brunton, Lauder, on digestion of gelatine, 111 , on the composition of casein, 115 , on the digestion of urea, 124 , of chlorophyll, 126 , of pepsin, 124 Byblis, 343 C.

Water, ammonia, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, uric acid, creatinine, creatine, urea, phosphorus, magnesium-the list ran on.

Beyond the usual organic sediments that come from the stratospheric chemistry, there are traces of urea, organic acids, diacids, some amino acids.