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Meaning of URINARY

Pronunciation:  'yûureenuree

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  of or relating to the function or production or secretion of urine
  2. [adj]  of or relating to the urinary system of the body
 
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \U"ri*na*ry\, a. [L. urina urine: cf. F. urinaire.]
    1. Of or pertaining to the urine; as, the urinary bladder;
       urinary excretions.
    2. 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.
    
  2. \U"ri*na*ry\, n.
    A urinarium; also, a urinal.
    
 
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Medical Dictionary
 
 Definition: Having to do with urine or the organs of the body that produce and get rid of urine.
 
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