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A disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine. Most frequently the urine is not only increased in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal. Diabetes mellitus Etym: [NL., sweet diabetes], that form of diabetes in which the urine contains sacchar…

Free excretion of urine.

Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine. -- n.

Difficult or painful discharge of urine.

The voiding of urine.

An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.

imported from India and China. It has a strong odor, and is said to be obtained from the urine of herbivorous animals when fed on the mango. It consists if a magnesium salt of euxanthic acid. Called also puri, purree, and Indian yellow.

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. "The mucus thus excreted." Hooper.

One of several species of small, jumping, murine rodents, of the genus Gerbillus. In their leaping powers they resemble the jerboa. They inhabit Africa, India, and Southern Europe.

A condition in which glucose is discharged in the urine; diabetes mellitus.

An apparatus for determining the amount of sugar in diabetic urine.

Passage of urine mingled with blood.

Obtained from the urine of horses; as, hippuric acid. Hippuric acid, a white crystalline substance, containing nitrogen, present in the urine of herbivorous animals, and in small quantity in human urine. By the action of acids, it is decomposed into benzoic acid and glycocoll.

An accumulation of urine in the pelvis of the kidney, occasioned by obstruction in the urinary passages.

rain the natural evacuations, so that the discharges are involuntary; as, incontinence of urine.

An indigo-forming substance, found in urine, and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin). Chemically, it is indoxyl sulphate of potash, C8H6NSO4K, and is derived from the indol formed in the alimentary canal. Called also uroxanthin.

Any lemurine animal of the genus Indris.

A retention or suppression of urine.

A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine, whiteness of the fæces, constipation, uneasiness in the region of the stomach, loss of appetite, and general languor and lassitude. It is caused usually by obstruction of the biliary passages and consequent damming up, in the liver, of the bi…

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from the urine of dogs. By decomposition the acid yields a nitrogenous base (called kynurin) and carbonic acid. [Written also cynurenic.]