URINARY

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Of or pertaining to the urine; as, the urinary bladder; urinary excretions.

2.
a.

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.

3.
n.

A urinarium; also, a urinal.


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