Definition of Anuretic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to an inability to urinate.

Exact synonyms: Anuric
Partainyms: Anuresis, Anuresis
Derivative terms: Anuresis

Definition of Anuretic

1. anuresis [adj] - See also: anuresis

Medical Definition of Anuretic

1. Relating to anuresis. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anuretic

antwacky
anty
anuclear
anucleate
anucleolate
anular
anulus
anumerical
anuptaphobia
anura
anural
anuran
anurans
anureses
anuresis
anuretic (current term)
anuria
anurias
anuric
anurous
anury
anus cerebri
anus vesicalis
anuses
anusvara
anusvaras
anvil
anvil cloud
anvil clouds

Literary usage of Anuretic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1912)
"Caffeine has a diuretic action, whereas Kola is anuretic. The drug prevents waste of brain as well as of muscular tissue. False Kola, Male Kola, ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1892)
"... draw the following conclusions as to the physiological action of kola nut and its constituents : (i) Kola nut is rather an anuretic than a diuretic. ..."

3. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1892)
"Caffeine has a diuretic action, whereas kola is anuretic. The drug prevents waste of brain as well as of muscular tissue. FALSE KOLA, MALE KOLA, ..."

4. Commercial Organic Analysis by Alfred Henry Allen, Wm. A. Davis (1912)
"Caffeine has a diuretic action, whereas Kola is anuretic. The drug prevents waste of brain as well as of muscular tissue. False Kola, Male Kola, ..."

5. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciencesedited by [Anonymus AC02809657] edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1893)
"Kola-nut is more an anuretic than a diuretic; contrary, in this respect, to the property- exhibited by caffeine. 2. The nitrogenous elements in the urine, ..."

6. A Pocket medical dictionary: Giving the Pronunciation and Definition of the ...by George Milbry Gould by George Milbry Gould (1911)
"anuretic, an-u-retf-ik. Affected with anuria. Anuria, an-uf-re-ah. An absence or deficiency of urine. Anus, a'-nus. The extremity of the rectum. ..."

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