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urinary

/ˈjʊəɹɪn(ə)ɹi/US/ˈjʊɹɪˌnɛɹi/

urinary adjective: of, relating to, occuring in, or affecting urine, its production, function, or excretion.

Adjective

urinary (not comparable)

  1. Of, relating to, occuring in, or affecting urine, its production, function, or excretion.
    • The objective is to make life easier for male colleagues and customers with urinary incontinence.2024 July 10, “Network News: 'Boys Need Bins' backed by GTR”, in RAIL, number 1013, page 23
  2. Of, relating to, occuring in, or affecting the organs involved in the production, function, or excretion of urine.

Noun

urinary (plural urinaries)

  1. (archaic) A urinary device or fixture: a urinal.
    • 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...1864 January 26, J.G. Lindsay, letter to P.P.L. O'Connel, §8

urinary meaning in Tamil, Arabic and Persian

urinary in Tamil

சிறுநீரின், சிறுநீரில், சிறுநீருக்குரிய

urinary in Arabic

urinary
بَوْلِيّ bawliyy

urinary in Persian

urinary
ادراری edrâri

Examples of urinary in a sentence

  • "It slowly impacts the bladder and the liver, and then the urinary tract.
  • I wonder if I could get a urinary tract infection this way.
  • Albumin receptors megalin and cubilin both possess long extracytosolic domain floating in the urinary space.

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Synonyms of urinary

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Forms of urinary

pluralurinaries

Origin of urinary

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

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Questions about urinary

What does urinary mean?
Urinary means of, relating to, occuring in, or affecting urine, its production, function, or excretion.
What is urinary in Tamil?
Urinary in Tamil is சிறுநீரின், சிறுநீரில், சிறுநீருக்குரிய. See Urinary meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is urinary?
Urinary can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce urinary?
Urinary is pronounced /ˈjʊəɹɪn(ə)ɹi/ (UK).

Words near urinary in the dictionary

  1. urinaria
  2. urinaries
  3. urinarily
  4. urinarium
  5. urinariums
  6. urinary
  7. urinary bladder
  8. urinary bladders
  9. urinary cast
  10. urinary casts
  11. urinary leash

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Adapted from Wiktionary: urinary (page history and authors); urinary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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