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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
diuretic
noun
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▪ Antihistamines, diuretics, and low-salt dietary regimens have all been used with varying degrees of success.
▪ Chlorothiazide is the forerunner of a large class of similar drugs, which have become known as the thiazide diuretics.
▪ If these patients are also receiving diuretics as treatment for their underlying disease, the diluting sites may be poisoned.
▪ In the majority of studies the most frequently used drugs have been thiazide diuretics and beta-blocking agents.
▪ Many of these patients are also receiving digitalis or diuretics, and the latter increase the risk by producing hypokalaemia.
▪ Marks on the paintwork and diuretics for breakfast.
▪ That usually means giving diuretics and the like, to reduce the amount of water in the uninjured regions of the brain.
▪ Use of diuretics that increase the urinary excretion of bicarbonate can cause metabolic acidosis. 291.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diuretic

Diuretic \Di`u*ret"ic\, a. [L. diureticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to make water; ? through + ? to make water, fr. ? urine: cf. F. diur['e]tique.] (Med.) Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine. -- n. A medicine with diuretic properties.

Diuretic salt (Med.), potassium acetate; -- so called because of its diuretic properties.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
diuretic

c.1400 (adjective and noun), from Old French diuretique, from Late Latin diureticus, from Greek diouretikos "prompting urine," from diourein "urinate," from dia "through" (see dia-) + ourein "urinate," from ouron (see urine).

Wiktionary
diuretic

a. Increasing the amount or frequency of urination. n. A drug or a substance that increases the rate of urine excretion.

WordNet
diuretic

n. any substance that tends to increase the flow of urine [syn: diuretic drug, water pill]

Wikipedia
Diuretic

A diuretic is any substance that promotes the production of urine. This includes forced diuresis. There are several categories of diuretics. All diuretics increase the excretion of water from bodies, although each class does so in a distinct way. Alternatively, an antidiuretic such as vasopressin, or antidiuretic hormone, is an agent or drug which reduces the excretion of water in urine.

Usage examples of "diuretic".

We cannot, In conclusion, too strongly condemn the general resort to strong diuretics so often prescribed by physicians for all forms of renal maladies, but which, by over-stimulating the already weak and delicate kidneys, only aggravate and render incurable thousands of cases annually.

Sweet Elder-flowers are a valuable alterative, diuretic, mucous and glandular stimulant, excellent in eruptive, cutaneous, and scrofulous diseases of children.

This is a tonic to the kidneys, as well as a diuretic and alterative, and is a mild, but very efficient remedy.

Warning signs include extreme preoccupation with weight, strict dieting followed by high-calorie eating binges, overeating when distressed, feeling out of control, disappearing after a meal, depressive moods, alcohol or drug abuse, frequent use of laxatives or diuretics, excessive exercising, and irregularities in menstrual cycle.

By giving her some albumin and a diuretic, I achieved some diuresis, and hence a slight improvement in the edema.

I tell you, I went up those steps faster than a scalded faggot, propelled by a barbarous diuretic terror on behalf of my exposed rear end.

The carminative properties of spearmint are inferior to those of peppermint, and its chief employment is for its diuretic and febrifuge virtues.

I pick up the kettle and carefully pour boiling water into the funnel, where it will damp down the coffee grounds, extract the xanthine alkaloids and dissolve the half tab of Ex-Lax hidden in the powder, draining the sennoside glycosides and the highly diuretic caffeine into the mug of steaming coffee that, with any luck, will give Fiore a strong urge to take ten minutes on the can about half an hour after he drinks it.

Aztec medicine to be a diuretic and as useful in gangrene treatment, has been found to contain plumbagin, an anti-bacterial agent, effective against staphylococcus.

Evening stretched into early morning with the aid of many bottles of Barolo and Barbaresco, glasses of grappa distilled from the pomace of these grapes, and a deep draft from a roadside spring possessing diuretic properties.

The Bracken has branched riblets, and is more viscid, mucilaginous, and diuretic, than the Male Fern.

In medicinal doses it is anodyne, antispasmodic, diaphoretic, and diuretic.

The bulb, consisting of several combined cloves, is stimulating, antispasmodic, expectorant, and diuretic.

Bedsteads would at night tumble down under their occupants, ghosts were personated, diuretic pills or sugar-plums were given to young ladies, as well as comfits who produced certain winds rising from the netherlands, and impossible to keep under control.

It may be due to colds, injuries, irritating diuretics, injections, extension of disease from the kidneys or adjacent organs, intemperance, severe horseback riding, recession of cutaneous affections, gout, rheumatism, etc.