Word Meanings - URINARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to the urine; as, the urinary bladder; urinary excretions. 2. Resembling, or being of the nature of, urine. Urinary calculus , a concretion composed of some one or more crystalline constituents of the urine, liable to be found

Additional info about word: URINARY

1. Of or pertaining to the urine; as, the urinary bladder; urinary excretions. 2. Resembling, or being of the nature of, urine. Urinary calculus , 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, , 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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