passage of urine
11kidney stone — Pathol. an abnormal stone, or concretion, composed primarily of oxalates and phosphates, found in the kidney. Also called renal calculus. [1970 75] * * * or renal calculus Mass of minerals and organic matter that may form in a kidney. Urine… …
12animal development — Introduction the processes that lead eventually to the formation of a new animal starting from cells derived from one or more parent individuals. Development thus occurs following the process by which a new generation of organisms is produced by …
13nocturia — Purposeful urination at night, after waking from sleep; typically caused by increased nocturnal secretion of urine resulting from failure of suppression of urine production during recumbency or incomplete emptying of the bladder because of… …
14urethra — canal through which urine is discharged from the bladder, 1630s, from L.L. urethra, from Gk. ourethra the passage for urine, coined by Hippocrates from ourein to urinate, from ouron (see URINE (Cf. urine)) …
15gonorrhoea — n. a sexually transmitted disease, caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, that affects the genital mucous membranes of either sex. Symptoms develop about a week after infection and include pain on passing urine and discharge of pus (known …
16gonorrhoea — n. a sexually transmitted disease, caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, that affects the genital mucous membranes of either sex. Symptoms develop about a week after infection and include pain on passing urine and discharge of pus (known …
17Hematuria — Hem a*tu ri*a, n. [NL. See {Hema }, and {Urine}.] (Med.) Passage of urine mingled with blood; blood in the urine. [1913 Webster] …
18blackwater fever — Pathol. a severe form of malaria characterized by kidney damage and hemoglobinuria resulting in urine that is dark red or black. [1880 85] * * * ▪ pathology also called malarial hemoglobinuria one of the less common yet most dangerous… …
19urethritis — urethritic /yoor euh thrit ik/, adj. /yoor euh thruy tis/, n. Pathol. inflammation of the urethra. [1815 25; < NL; see URETHR , ITIS] * * * ▪ pathology infection and inflammation of the urethra, the channel for passage of urine from the… …
20Incontinence, urinary — The unintentional loss of urine. Inability to hold urine in the bladder due to loss of voluntary control over the urinary sphincters resulting in the involuntary passage of urine. One cause of urinary incontinence is an overactive bladder in… …
