urinary

English

Etymology

From New Latin ūrīnārius. By surface analysis, urine +‎ -ary.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈjʊəɹɪn(ə)ɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈjʊɹɪˌnɛɹi/, /ˈjɝɹɪˌnɛɹi/

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Adjective

urinary (not comparable)

1. (urology) Of, relating to, occuring in, or affecting urine, its production, function, or excretion.
   • 2024 July 10, “Network News: 'Boys Need Bins' backed by GTR”, in RAIL, number 1013, page 23:

     The objective is to make life easier for male colleagues and customers with urinary incontinence.

2. (urology) Of, relating to, occuring in, or affecting the organs involved in the production, function, or excretion of urine.

Synonyms

• uretic
• -uretic
• urinal
• urino-

Derived terms

• gastrourinary
• genitourinary
• urinary bladder
• urinary cast
• urinary leash
• urinary meatus
• urinary system
• urinary tract
• urinary tract infection

Related terms

• urology

Translations

urinary

Arabic: بَوْلِيّ m (bawliyy) Bulgarian: пикочен (pikočen) Catalan: urinari (ca) Czech: močový (cs) Esperanto: urina (eo) Finnish: virtsa- (fi) French: urinaire (fr) Greek: ουρικός (el) (ourikós) Hungarian: vizeleti (hu) Italian: urinario (it) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: میزی (mîzî) Norwegian: urin- (no) Persian: ادراری (fa) (edrâri) Portuguese: urinário (pt) Romanian: urinar (ro) Russian: мочево́й (ru) (močevój) Spanish: urinario (es) Turkish: idrarsal, üriner Ukrainian: сечови́й (sečovýj)

Noun

urinary (plural urinaries)

1. (archaic) A urinary device or fixture: a urinal.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:chamber pot, Thesaurus:toilet

   • 1864 January 26, J.G. Lindsay, letter to P.P.L. O'Connel, §8:

     Arconum—I found two chairs wanting in the gentlemen's room, and the bath room attached applied to other purposes... the privies and urinaries clean...

Further reading

• “urinary”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “urinary”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.