Medical Definition of Ischuria
1. Retention or suppression of urine. Origin: G. Ischo, to keep back, + ouron, urine (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ischuria
Literary usage of Ischuria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System: Delivered at La Salpêtrière by Jean Martin Charcot (1877)
"Hysterical ischuria. Differences which divide it from oliguria. ... Causes which
have thrown doubt on the existence of hysterical ischuria. ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1836)
"The subject of the first of these was a military man 70 years of age who was
attacked with ischuria whilst labouring under bilious fever. ..."
3. The Principles and Practice of Medicine by John Elliotson, Thomas Stewardson (1844)
"SECTION I.—ischuria. Varieties.—The first disease which I shall mention, is a
diminution of the secretion; and this is called ..."
4. A Treatise on the Diseases of Children: With Directions for the Management by Michael Underwood, Marshall Hall (1835)
"This dangerous disorder is easily distinguished from the ischuria ... In the
ischuria renalis, on the other hand, the urine is not secreted at all: but the ..."
5. A Practical treatise on the diseases of children by David Francis Condie (1858)
"In ischuria, the urine is regularly secreted by the kidneys, ... In cases of
ischuria in the new-born infant, as the urine gradually accumulates in the ..."
6. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children by Alfred Vogel (1870)
"Hence we have ischuria ... Of all these kinds, but a single one, ischuria spastica,
occurs in children. ..."
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