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Urinary
() Resembling, or being of the nature of, urine.
Urinary
() A urinarium; also, a urinal.
Urinate
() To discharge urine; to make water.
Urination
() The act or process of voiding urine; micturition.
Urinative
() Provoking the flow of urine; uretic; diuretic.
Urinator
() One who dives under water in search of something, as for pearls; a diver.
Urine
() In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion.
Urine
() To urinate.
Uriniferous
() Bearing or conveying urine; as, uriniferous tubules.
Uriniparous
() Producing or preparing urine; as, the uriniparous tubes in the cortical portion of the kidney.
Urinogenital
() Pertaining to the urinary and genital organs; genitourinary; urogenital; as, the urinogenital canal.
Urinometer
() A small hydrometer for determining the specific gravity of urine.
Urinometry
() The estimation of the specific gravity of urine by the urinometer.
Urinose
() Alt. of Urinous
Urinous
() Of or pertaining to urine, or partaking of its qualities; having the character or odor of urine; similar to urine.
Urite
() One of the segments of the abdomen or post-abdomen of arthropods.
Urith
() The bindings of a hedge.
Urn
() A vessel of various forms, usually a vase furnished with a foot or pedestal, employed for different purposes, as for holding liquids, for ornamental uses, for preserving the ashes of the dead after cremation, and anciently for holding lots to be drawn.
Urn
() Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave.
Urn
() A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a haft, wine measure. It was haft the amphora, and four times the congius.
Urn
() A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
Urn
() A tea urn. See under Tea.
Urn
() To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.
Urnal
() Of or pertaining to an urn; effected by an urn or urns.
Urnfuls
() of Urnful
Urnful
() As much as an urn will hold; enough to fill an urn.
Urn-shaped
() Having the shape of an urn; as, the urn-shaped capsules of some mosses.
Uro-
() A combining form fr. Gr. o'y^ron, urine.
Uro-
() A combining form from Gr. o'yra`, the tail, the caudal extremity.
Urobilin
() A yellow pigment identical with hydrobilirubin, abundant in the highly colored urine of fever, and also present in normal urine. See Urochrome.
Urocele
() A morbid swelling of the scrotum due to extravasation of urine into it.
Urocerata
() A division of boring Hymenoptera, including Tremex and allied genera. See Illust. of Horntail.
Urochord
() The central axis or cord in the tail of larval ascidians and of certain adult tunicates.
Urochorda
() Same as Tunicata.
Urochordal
() Of or pertaining to the Urochorda.
Urochrome
() A yellow urinary pigment, considered by Thudichum as the only pigment present in normal urine. It is regarded by Maly as identical with urobilin.
Urochs
() See Aurochs.
Urocord
() See Urochord.
Urocyst
() The urinary bladder.
Urodela
() An order of amphibians having the tail well developed and often long. It comprises the salamanders, tritons, and allied animals.
Urodele
() One of the Urodela.
Urodelian
() Of or pertaining to the Urodela.
Urodelian
() One of the Urodela.
Uroerythrin
() A reddish urinary pigment, considered as the substance which gives to the urine of rheumatism its characteristic color. It also causes the red color often seen in deposits of urates.
Urogastric
() Behind the stomach; -- said of two lobes of the carapace of certain crustaceans.
Urogenital
() Same as Urinogenital.
Uroglaucin
() A body identical with indigo blue, occasionally found in the urine in degeneration of the kidneys. It is readily formed by oxidation or decomposition of indican.
Urohaematin
() Urinary haematin; -- applied to the normal coloring matter of the urine, on the supposition that it is formed either directly or indirectly (through bilirubin) from the haematin of the blood. See Urochrome, and Urobilin.
Urohyal
() Of or pertaining to one or more median and posterior elements in the hyoidean arch of fishes.
Urohyal
() A urohyal bone or cartilage.