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

See Urogenital.

als, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.

Tending to prevent the formation of urinary calculi, or to destroy them when formed. -- n.

A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.

h oil dlands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves.

ans that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.

The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes.

In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder. [Written also cystis.]

Pertaining to, or contained in, a cyst; esp., pertaining to, or contained in, either the urinary bladder or the gall bladder. Cystic duct, the duct from the gall bladder which unites with the hepatic to form the common bile duct. -- Cystic worm (Zoöl.), a larval tape worm, as the cysticercus and echinococcus.…

alline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine.

Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.

A urinary calculus.

What is voided by the urinary passages; urine.

A contagious inflammatory disease of the genitourinary tract, affecting especially the urethra and vagina, and characterized by a mucopurulent discharge, pain in urination, and chordee; clap.

A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder.

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

A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland.

on of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages. Dunglison.

ular dilatations, containing the glomeruli or Malpighian tufts, at the extremities of the urinary tubules of the kidney. Malpighian corpuscles of the spleen, masses of adenoid tissue connected with branches of the splenic artery.