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urinary

[ yoor-uh-ner-ee ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to urine.
  2. pertaining to the organs secreting and discharging urine.


noun

, Archaic.
, plural u·ri·nar·ies.

urinary

/ ˈjʊərɪnərɪ /

adjective

  1. anatomy of or relating to urine or to the organs and structures that secrete and pass urine


noun

  1. a reservoir for urine
  2. See urinal
    another word for urinal

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Word History and Origins

Origin of urinary1

From the New Latin word ūrīnārius, dating back to 1570–80. See urine, -ary

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Example Sentences

Byfuglin received the second most popular urinary diversion, the neobladder.

From Time

This year, Chen’s pilot study on pregnant women, published in the journal Environmental Pollution, linked higher urinary concentrations of glyphosate to shorter pregnancies.

Chronic mild dehydration might even contribute to a higher risk of developing urinary tract infections, high blood pressure, heart disease, and strokes.

He also added another “cooked” bacteria into his concoction, Serratia marcescens, which, when alive, can cause infections of the respiratory and urinary tracts.

Things that are more likely to introduce bacteria into the urinary tract are risk factors.

A procedure to reopen his urinary tract could have been done under local anesthesia.

Their app, Colorimetrix, is accurate enough to monitor conditions such as diabetes, kidney disease, and urinary tract infections.

An uncomfortable urinary infection is going to feel way worse than those few minutes you spent trying to crank out your work.

Halpern prescribes the medi-meth for patients who get recurrent urinary-tract infections—a side effect from Adderall or Ritalin.

When I was 36 weeks pregnant, my nurse practitioner told me I had a urinary tract infection and prescribed an antibiotic.

Factors which favor an early deposit are high acidity, diminished urinary pigments, and excessive excretion of uric acid.

Urinary sediments may be studied under three heads: A. Unorganized sediments.

Here they are seldom abundant, but their constant presence is the most reliable urinary sign of the disease.

Their usual source is the deeper layers of the urinary tract, especially of the bladder.

In suppurations of the urinary tract pus-producing organisms may be found.

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