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urosis

/jʊəˈɹəʊsɪs/

urosis noun: any disease of the urinary organs.

Noun

urosis (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Any disease of the urinary organs.
    • He made a definite comparison between the family histories of urosis cases and other patients in the hospital […]c. 1918, United States. Surgeon-General's Office, Review of war surgery and medicine, page 103
    • Tuberculous ulcer is frequently found in severe cases of urosis […]1960, The Nihon University Journal of Medicine, volume 2, page 309

Origin of urosis

From uro- + -osis.

Questions about urosis

What does urosis mean?
Urosis means any disease of the urinary organs.
What part of speech is urosis?
Urosis is a noun.
How do you pronounce urosis?
Urosis is pronounced /jʊəˈɹəʊsɪs/.

Words near urosis in the dictionary

  1. uroseptic
  2. urosepticaemia
  3. urosepticemia
  4. urosheath
  5. urosheaths
  6. urosis
  7. urosomal
  8. urosome
  9. urosomes
  10. urosomite
  11. urosomites

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