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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
urine
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blood/urine/tissue etc sample
▪ He compared the samples with a blood sample from Mr Green.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
flow
▪ Thus, it is essential to monitor urine flow, serum tonicity, and body weight during the deprivation.
▪ Body temperature is higher in the daytime than at night, and urine flow is lower overnight.
▪ Similarly, adaptation to very high intakes requires several days and ample urine flow.
▪ Osmotic diuretics cause in-creased potassium losses, probably primarily because of the increased urine flow accompanying them.
▪ In both states, urine flow is high, since the urine remains continuously dilute.
sample
▪ Addition of acetic acid to the urine sample dissolves the salts and clears the urine.
▪ It was Karen Silkwood who had spiked her own urine samples.
▪ Subsequent to this investigation we assessed 2907 urine samples from women attending the antenatal clinics in Dundee between November 1990 and September 1992.
▪ Whenever a patient returned for a clinic visit, a urine sample was collected and was analyzed for ethanol.
▪ As well as the chatty bit about not forgetting the urine sample, both sides carry advertising.
▪ All three provided identical urine samples.
▪ Medical tests conducted later that evening found evidence of cocaine in the mayor's blood and urine samples.
▪ All three were barred in February for tampering with urine samples during out-of-competition tests.
specimen
▪ However, when urine specimens were screened there were several positives in the modern pentathlon contest.
▪ The type of light chain excreted in the urine may be identified by performing immuno-electrophoresis on a concentrated urine specimen. 173.
▪ No further food or fluid was consumed, except for the standard meal until the last urine specimen had been collected.
▪ That is, until something turned up somehow in C.J.'s urine specimen.
▪ To overcome the problems of collecting a 24 hour urine specimen, an overnight collection was made.
▪ It is just picking people out randomly, with no grounds for suspicion, and forcing them to give urine specimens.
▪ A 24-hour urine specimen should be collected to determine creatinine clearance, and protein and uric acid excretion.
test
▪ It requires fertility monitoring with ultrasound, and blood or urine tests.
▪ Within 48 hours, Larson forced 4, 000 midshipmen to take urine tests.
▪ I want you to organise full blood analysis, and the usual urine tests.
▪ Here a check is kept on weight; blood and urine tests are carried out; and relevant medical history is noted.
▪ His urine tests show glycosuria which over the months abates.
■ VERB
collect
▪ Each subject was initially asked to collect their urine for 24 hours.
▪ Patients were instructed to take no alcohol and to collect all urine for the next 24 hours.
▪ When their overlords came out to relieve themselves in the snow, the serfs collected the urine to drink.
▪ To overcome the problems of collecting a 24 hour urine specimen, an overnight collection was made.
▪ There's no need to separately collect urine, no mess, and no waiting around for a result.
▪ If requested, collect specimens of urine from diabetic residents.
excrete
▪ Excess electrolytes are excreted through the urine, but it is not wise to overdose them.
▪ The type of light chain excreted in the urine may be identified by performing immuno-electrophoresis on a concentrated urine specimen. 173.
▪ Sulphated bile acids are excreted in urine in large amounts under cholestatic conditions.
▪ This circulating urobilinogen is almost completely picked up by the liver with only a small amount excreted in the urine.
▪ Unlike sodium, potassium exhibits no renal threshold being excreted into the urine even in K depleted states.
▪ Since conjugated bilirubin is water-soluble, it will be excreted in the urine by the kidney.
▪ It is excreted in the urine as a waste product of creatine. 194.
find
▪ Later workers found that the urine of beer drinkers gave the best yields.
▪ Darren, aged 5 years, had been found deliberately passing urine in the corner of his bedroom carpet.
▪ When there is active infection, the virus can be found in saliva, urine, vaginal discharge, and semen.
give
▪ In neither case is there any need to invite the driver to express his preference for giving blood or urine.
▪ It is just picking people out randomly, with no grounds for suspicion, and forcing them to give urine specimens.
pass
▪ Urge incontinence is when you suddenly need to pass urine desperately, but aren't able to reach the toilet in time.
▪ Tracey adds to her notes: Mrs Brown says she passed urine twice during the night, possibly at 4.30 or 5.30.
▪ He had also felt a stinging sensation every time he passed urine.
▪ He had also noticed that there was a slight discomfort when he passed urine.
▪ Whether this happens or not, one of the main symptoms is dysuria - pain on passing urine.
▪ Learning to pass urine in the correct place is the next stage of awareness and learning.
▪ Continence is the ability to control the contents of the bladder and to pass urine only when you want to.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A high urine sodium concentration is a variable but frequent confirmatory finding in this disorder.
▪ For whatever reason the Act provides that it is his responsibility to make the request, either for blood or urine.
▪ He was taken off the ventilator, although he still had the tracheostomy and a catheter for his urine.
▪ I blush, my heart pounds, I control my tears, but I feel warm urine run down my legs.
▪ In the wastes of the Chaidam basin he is forced to drink his own urine to survive.
▪ That is, until something turned up somehow in C.J.'s urine specimen.
▪ They went back to natural oestrogen, a cumbersome and expensive product, harvested from the urine of pregnant mares.
▪ This circulating urobilinogen is almost completely picked up by the liver with only a small amount excreted in the urine.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Urine

Urine \U"rine\, n. [F. urine, L. urina; akin to urinari to plunge under water, to dive, Gr. ? urine; cf. Skr. v[=a]r water, Icel. ?r drizzling rain, AS. w[ae]r the sea.] (Physiol.) In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion. Note: In man, the urine is a clear, transparent fluid of an amber color and peculiar odor, with an average density of

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  2. The average amount excreted in 24 hours is from 40 to 60 ounces (about 1,200 cubic centimeters). Chemically, the urine is mainly an aqueous solution of urea, salt (sodium chloride), and uric acid, together with some hippuric acid and peculiar pigments. It usually has an acid reaction, owing to the presence of acid phosphates of soda or free uric acid. Normally, it contains about 960 parts of water to 40 parts of solid matter, and the daily average excretion is 35 grams (540 grains) of urea, 0.75 gram (11 grains) of uric acid, and 16.5 grams (260 grains) of salt. Abnormally, it may contain sugar as in diabetes, protein as in Bright's disease, bile pigments as in jaundice, or abnormal quantities of some one or more of the normal constituents.

Urine

Urine \U"rine\, v. i. To urinate. [Obs.]
--Bacon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
urine

c.1300, from Old French orine, urine (12c.) and directly from Latin urina "urine," from PIE *ur- (cognates: Greek ouron "urine"), variant of root *we-r- "water, liquid, milk" (cognates: Sanskrit var "water," Avestan var "rain," Lithuanian jures "sea," Old English wær, Old Norse ver "sea," Old Norse ur "drizzling rain"), related to *eue-dh-r (see udder).

Wiktionary
urine

n. (context physiology English) Liquid excrement consisting of water, salts and urea, which is made in the kidneys, stored in the bladder, then released through the urethra.

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WordNet
urine

n. liquid excretory product; "there was blood in his urine"; "the child had to make water" [syn: piss, pee, piddle, weewee, water]

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Wikipedia
Urine

Urine (from Latin urina, -ae, f.) is a liquid by-product of the body secreted by the kidneys through a process called urination (or micturition) and excreted through the urethra.

Cellular metabolism generates numerous by-products, many rich in nitrogen, that require clearance from the bloodstream. These by-products are eventually expelled from the body during urination, the primary method for excreting water-soluble chemicals from the body. These chemicals can be detected and analyzed by urinalysis.

Human urine, together with human feces, are collectively referred to as human waste or human excreta.

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Usage examples of "urine".

Finally, he points out the practical bearing of the subject--for example, the probability of calculus causing sudden suppression of urine in such cases--and also the danger of surgical interference, and suggests the possibility of diagnosing the condition by ascertaining the absence of the opening of one ureter in the bladder by means of the cystoscope, and also the likelihood of its occurring where any abnormality of the genital organs is found, especially if this be unilateral.

It is one of a small group of diseases characterized by the production of abnormally high quantities of urine, so that water seemed simply to pass through the body in a hurry.

The most serious variety of the disease is characterized by an abnormally sweet urine.

Dismounting in the outer yard, Alec wrinkled his nose at the dismal stench of urine and burning tallow that hung over the place.

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.

It exercises some aperient action, and the liquid in which turnips are boiled will increase the flow of urine.

Anoshi and Bap were dressed in the undersuiting that went with their spacesuits, including even biomedical sensors and the semi-bulky EMU urine collection systems about their crotches and waists.

The metal toilet in the cell had backed up, and was filled to the brim with a brown stew of liquid feces and sour, beerish urine.

The air in the courtyard smelled of stale ale and urine, and at the far end of the atrium stood a begrimed building that might once have been white.

Apparently the god could neither hear nor see them, nor detect urine or draught from the blue nipples -- or for tactical reasons was behaving as if he could not.

White urine, commonly known as chyluria, is frequently seen, and sometimes results from purulent cystitis.

The destruction of the parts was so complete and the opening so large as to bring into view the whole inner surface of the pelvis, in spite of which, after prolonged suppuration, the wound cicatrized from behind forward and health returned, except as regards the inconvenience of feces and urine.

He had followed the advice of a Melanesian boy and every night he had applied wisps of kunai grass soaked in the urine of the Cuscus or Coconut Possum.

The urine from the dassie colonies poured down the cliff face so copiously that as it dried it covered the rock with a thick coating that shone in the sunlight like toffee but smelt less sweet.

But as she hesitated, Emo hiked up his kilt, reached into his sling, and directed a stream of urine practically at her feet.