Hypertext Webster Gateway: "urinary"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Urinary \U"ri*na*ry\, n.
A urinarium; also, a urinal.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Urinary \U"ri*na*ry\, a. [L. urina urine: cf. F. urinaire.]
1. Of or pertaining to the urine; as, the urinary bladder;
urinary excretions.

2. 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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

urinary
adj 1: of or relating to the function or production or secretion of
urine
2: of or relating to the urinary system of the body


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