Urinary
urinary (?), 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.
urinary , n. A urinarium; also, aurinal.
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