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Urinary adj.

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

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Urinary" Quotes from Famous Books

... the stomach, all cavities, organs, openings of the body, the genital and urinary tracts, etc., are lined with mucous membrane, which must always be kept in a normal and healthy condition, otherwise the functions of metabolism and procreation of the organism cannot be carried on in safety ...

— Valere Aude - Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration • Louis Dechmann

... urinary analysis which entitle it to a very high position in the estimation of pharmacists. In the first place, the physician is no more likely to be fonder of the test tube than of the pestle, of analyzing urine than of compounding his own medicines. Leading men in the profession ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 • Various

Words linked to "Urinary" : urinary hesitancy, urinary system, urinary organ, urinary incontinence, urinary bladder