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Urine. See Lant. [Obs.]

Urine. [Prov. Eng.] Nares.

Like bricks; of the color of red bricks. Lateritious sediment (Med.), a sediment in urine resembling brick dust, observed after the crises of fevers, and at the termination of gouty paroxysms. It usually consists of uric acid or urates with some coloring matter.

A medicine having, or supposed to have, the power of expelling calculous matter with the urine. Hooper.

gent in testing for the metallic oxides. Originally obtained by the alchemists from human urine, and called sal microcosmicum.

The act of voiding urine; also, a morbidly frequent passing of the urine, in consequence of disease.

A cloudy appearance in the urine. [Obs.]

Urine. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A cloudy object or appearance in urine. Dunglison.

The urine, which is assumed to contain all the nitrogen truly excreted by the body, besides a large quantity of saline matters and water. Foster.

A crystalline substance closely related to xanthin, present in small quantity in urine.

The presence of peptone, or a peptonelike body, in the urine.

athesis (Med.), a habit of body which leads to the undue excretion of phosphates with the urine.

The excessive discharge of phosphates in the urine.

To discharge urine, to urinate. Shak.

A persistently excessive flow of watery urine, with low specific gravity and without the presence of either albumin or sugar. It is generally accompanied with more or less thirst.

A nitrogenous phosphorized principle found in brain tissue. By decomposition it yields neurine, fatty acids, and other bodies.

Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.

A morbid condition in which pus is discharged in the urine.

Organized so as to discharge the urine backward. -- n. (Zoöl.)