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urine Definition

urine (yo̵or′in)

noun

a waste product of vertebrates and many invertebrates, secreted by the kidneys or other excretory structures: in mammals, it is a yellowish liquid containing urea, certain salts, etc., which is stored in the bladder and discharged periodically from the body through the urethra; in birds, reptiles, etc., it is a solid or almost solid substance formed chiefly of uric acid

Etymology: OFr < L urina, urine < IE *ūr-, var. of base *awer-, to moisten, flow > water, Gr ouron, urine

urine Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • dilute: Urine hCG tests may give a false negative result in very dilute urine.
  • excrete: For every 2 glasses of wine you drink you will excrete 4 glasses urine.
  • pass: The less often you pass urine, the less often you will need to go.
  • drain: Newly inserted catheter does not drain urine: The most obvious cause of failure to drain urine is failure to enter the bladder.

Adjective modifier

  • stale: The aura of disinfectant, mingled with the light stench of stale urine wafted through the air.
  • concentrated: When and how the body produces dilute and concentrated urine.
  • alkaline: Many problems with the stoma and surrounding skin areas are caused by the presence of alkaline urine.
  • residual: Residual urine The urine that remains in the bladder after urination.
  • infected: The disease is transmitted by direct contact with infected urine, poop or saliva.

Modifies a noun

  • dipstick: This information is relevant to anyone involved in the management and use of urine dipstick tests.
  • sample: My vet has asked for a urine sample from my dog.
  • cytology: Laboratory data were almost within normal limits and urine cytology was positive.
  • specimen: They were working with exactly the same urine specimens for other tests in the lab.
  • hcg: Urine hCG tests may give a false negative result in very dilute urine.
  • scald: Prior to the introduction of the spray we were using petroleum jelly as our method of preventing urine scald and tissue maceration.

Noun used with modifier

  • passing: RBS [ glucose level ] around 7. PU [ passing urine ] normally.

Preposition: in

  • bladder: Urodynamic studies Assessment of the pressure and flow of urine in the bladder and connecting tubes.

Preposition: from

  • bladder: The primary purpose of the catheter is to permit drainage, in this case of urine from the urinary bladder.
  • kidney: Sudden blockage to the drainage of urine from the kidney can cause damage.

Preposition: for

  • ketone: Test your blood sugar level and your urine for ketones as soon as any such symptoms of hyperglycaemia occur as described above.
urine Quotes

Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart; liver slices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencod's roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

—Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius

   What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutelyset, ingeniousmachinefor turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?

—Blixen, Karen, Baroness pseudonym Isak Dinesen

The most beautiful sight in orbit†is a urine dump at sunset, because as the stuff comes out and as it hits the exit nozzle it instantly flashes into ten million little ice crystals whichgo out almost ina hemisphere† It'sreally a spectacular sight.

—Schweikart, Russell