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UTI

UTI is the initialism of urinary tract infection.

Meaning of urinary tract infection

Noun

urinary tract infection (plural urinary tract infections, abbreviation UTI)

  1. An infection that affects part of the urinary tract.
    • The priest proceeds to pour bowl after bowl of ceremonial water on our scalps. My makeup, hair and contact lenses stream down my cheeks. My eyes burn. I wonder if I could get a urinary tract infection this way.2022 November 26, Virginia Feito, “Sweating Through a Honeymoon in Paradise”, in The New York Times

Forms of UTI

pluralUTIs

Words formed from UTI

Phrases with UTI

Questions about UTI

What is UTI the initialism of?
UTI is the initialism of urinary tract infection.

Words near UTI in the dictionary

  1. Uthlus
  2. Uthman
  3. Uthmanic
  4. Uthulu
  5. Uthulus
  6. UTI
  7. uti possidetis
  8. utia
  9. Utian
  10. utias
  11. utibapril

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: UTI (page history and authors); urinary tract infection (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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