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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
urinary
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
albumin
▪ The two groups were strictly similar for all variables, especially for initial blood pressure and urinary albumin excretion.
▪ It has therefore been accepted that the urinary albumin concentration or albumin:creatinine ratio can be used to screen patients.
▪ Variability in 24 hour urinary albumin excretion within and between subjects was 35% and 66% respectively.
▪ The results of urinary albumin and transferrin excretion are shown in Figure 2.
▪ Figure 1 shows the individual changes in urinary albumin excretion with time and treatment.
excretion
▪ Its endogenous synthesis and urinary excretion have been well established, but no consensus exists concerning the mode of intestinal absorption.
▪ Use of diuretics that increase the urinary excretion of bicarbonate can cause metabolic acidosis. 291.
incontinence
▪ This survey shows that the emotional, social, and hygienic effects of urinary incontinence remain considerable.
▪ Discussion prevalence Of the many surveys of prevalence of urinary incontinence few report only on people living in their own homes.
▪ But even young, nulliparous, and otherwise totally healthy women experience urinary incontinence.
▪ Although urinary incontinence may be no more than a nuisance in some women, for many it is far more troublesome.
▪ One resident was, however, noticeably unshaven and smelly and there was evidence, too, of urinary incontinence.
▪ No figures are available to compare to those in this study as to people's perception of the causes of urinary incontinence.
▪ Clearly, doctors see only a small proportion of patients with urinary incontinence.
tract
▪ This can have devastating consequences, and may cause long-term damage to the urinary tract.
▪ Infections of kidney / urinary tract 12, 399 4. 9&038;.
▪ There may be much urging to urinate, smarting, stinging, burning along the urinary tract.
▪ Infections in the bloodstream, urinary tract or lungs usually are dangerous only to people with other illnesses and weakened immune systems.
▪ Infections of kidney / urinary tract 8, 006 3. 5&038;.
▪ It is now doubtful whether urinary tract infection has any role to play in the production of this renal lesion.
▪ Nine percent of patients had at least one urinary tract infection.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the digestive/reproductive/urinary etc tract
▪ Because it dissolves easily in water, it is rapidly absorbed from the digestive tract and mixes easily with blood.
▪ It is rare, however, for the urinary tract to be affected.
▪ Obstruction covered all mechanical obstruction to the urinary tract, excluding prostatic disease.
▪ Or it could simply be activity in the digestive tract.
▪ There may be much urging to urinate, smarting, stinging, burning along the urinary tract.
▪ This can have devastating consequences, and may cause long-term damage to the urinary tract.
▪ This is a cleansing agent of the digestive tract and it also aids digestion.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Administration of 5 units of aqueous vasopressin subcutaneously should maximally stimulate urinary concentration.
▪ Did urinary or fecal incontinence occur? 3.
▪ If there is any pain or a burning sensation, tell the doctor, just in case you have a urinary infection.
▪ Many of the states of increased urinary losses involve excessive mineralocorticoid effect.
▪ Nowadays the urinary symptoms seem to be of a lesser order.
▪ Some urinary games are fairly harmless, but I reckon this one could damage your delicate vaginal tissue.
▪ The urinary bladder in both sexes acts as a half way house or store for the urine secreted by the kidneys.
▪ Xanthinuria is a rare hereditary deficiency of xanthine oxidase, which results in hypouricemia and diminished urinary uric acid excretion.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Urinary

Urinary \U"ri*na*ry\, a. [L. urina urine: cf. F. urinaire.]

  1. Of or pertaining to the urine; as, the urinary bladder; urinary excretions.

  2. Resembling, or being of the nature of, urine.

    Urinary calculus (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.

    Urinary pigments, (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.

Urinary

Urinary \U"ri*na*ry\, n. A urinarium; also, a urinal.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
urinary

1570s, from Modern Latin urinarius, from Latin urina (see urine).

Wiktionary
urinary

a. 1 Pertaining to urine, its production, function, or excretion. 2 Of or relating to the organs involved in the formation and excretion of urine. n. (context archaic English) A place for urinating; a urinal.

WordNet
urinary
  1. adj. of or relating to the function or production or secretion of urine

  2. of or relating to the urinary system of the body

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "urinary".

Petit is accredited with seeing a case which exhibited neither nymphae, clitoris, nor urinary meatus.

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Marsden reports a case in which, following secondary papular syphilis and profuse spontaneous ptyalism, there was vicarious secretion of the urinary constituents from the skin.

Healthy urine will leave a slight deposit or stain in any vessel in which it has been allowed to stand, due to the presence of urates, which sometimes become deposited in the urinary passages in the form of gravel.

He was bewildered, for instance, by her new and to him quite inexplicable reluctance to respond to their familiar urinary tune by singing the antistrophe that signified assent, and crouching to relieve herself.

There was a complete half-turn to the left, so that the slit-like urinary meatus was reversed and the frenum was above.

It was a pedunculated growth, and it was undoubtedly vesical and not expelled from some ovarian source through the urinary passage, as sometimes occurs.

These organs then, in part, perform the function of the liver, and hence unnatural activity is required of them, and the secreting of such substances as uric acid, which precipitates readily and gives rise to severe irritation of the urinary canal.

The condition he was suffering from, known as strangury, was caused by an acute and painful inflammation of the urinary tract.

They showed me and talked to me about the different parts of her organs - the clitoris, the labia minora, the urinary orifice, the entry to the vagina - then described sexual intercourse to me and invited me to have it with Olga.

The mutual action of the digestive, urinary, and internal generative organs upon each other takes place entirely through the medium of the sympathetic ganglia and their nerves.

The above cut is introduced here to assist in conveying a correct idea of the Urinary and Generative Organs of Woman, their form and relative positions, together with the bones, muscles and other tissues forming the cavity of the pelvis in which the organs rest, and by which they are protected.

Simple derangement of the urinary secretion is no evidence of disease of these organs, as changes in the color, quantity and specific gravity of the urine are often produced by changes of temperature, active or sedentary habits, mental emotion, and sometimes by articles of diet, or drink, as well as by the use of different drugs.

These organs then, in part, perform the function of the liver, and hence unnatural activity is required of them, and the secreting of such substances as uric acid, which precipitates readily and gives rise to severe irritation of the urinary canal.

In a practice embracing the treatment of a vast number of cases of diseases of the Urinary Organs, it has been our good fortune to effect many remarkable cures.