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Diuretic   Listen
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Diuretic  adj.  (Med.) Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine.
Diuretic salt (Med.), potassium acetate; so called because of its diuretic properties.





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"Diuretic" Quotes from Famous Books



... neutral, except in excessive doses, or in combination with acids of varying medicinal action; thus, soda in nitric acid, nitrate of soda, is a diuretic, following the law of nitrates as nitrate of potash, a most powerful diuretic, nitrous ether, etc.; while soda in combination with sulphuric acid as sulphate of soda is aperient, following the law of sulphates, which increase aperient action, as in sulphate of ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 • Various


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