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Definition of Bacteriuria
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Bacteriuria
1. The presence of bacteria in the urine with or without consequent urinary tract infection. Since bacteriuria is a clinical entity, the term does not preclude the use of urine/microbiology for technical discussions on the isolation and segregation of bacteria in the urine. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bacteriuria
Literary usage of Bacteriuria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Guide To Clinical Preventive Services by U. S. Preventive Services Task Force (1989)
"Screening for Asymptomatic bacteriuria, Hematuria, and Proteinuria Recommendation:
... Burden of Suffering: A number of disorders that cause bacteriuria, ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"A bacteriuria may have its origin in bacteria which pass through the injured
renal filter, as in typhoid fever, or it may be the result of infection from ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"bacteriuria bacteriuria is the result of a growth of some form of microscopic
... bacteriuria may be confused with PHOSPHATES, or urates in the urine. ..."
4. Urology: Diseases of the Urinary Organs, Diseases of the Male Genital Organs by Edward Loughborough Keyes (1917)
"bacteriuria is total when caused by a lesion in the kidney pelvis. ... Among these
only 3 had a frank pyuria, 12 had a pure bacteriuria without pus, ..."
5. A Text-book of clinical diagnosis by laboratory methods: For the Use of by Leonard Napoleon Boston (1905)
"Theoretically, bacteriuria should always ensue as a result of bacteremia.
The urine contains specific bacteria during the course of certain infectious ..."
6. The Surgical Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs by Edward Lawrence Keyes (1905)
"bacteriuria may be suspected by the urinary appearance and odour. It can IH
diagnosed only by the centrifuge (which fails to clear the urine) and the ..."
7. Gonorrhea, Its Diagnosis and Treatment by Frederick Baumann (1910)
"CHAPTER X. bacteriuria AND NON-GONORRHEAL URETHRITIS. This condition is the
condition in which freshly voided non-purulent urine is made turbid by the ..."
8. Genitourinary diseases and syphilis by Henry Holdich Morton (1918)
"Symptoms The symptoms of bacteriuria are not marked, and the turbid urine with
a foul odor is often the only sign. Sometimes the urination is frequent and ..."
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