Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The absence of urine formation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Absence of micturition, whether from suppression or from retention of urine. Also called anuresis, anury.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun inability to urinate.
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- noun medicine A condition in which the
kidneys do not produceurine
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun inability to urinate
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Examples
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Renal effects include oliguria or anuria (little or no urine excretion) due to tubular necrosis, often preceded by the formerly mentioned effects Mercury and Iron salts.
Chapter 13 1996
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Four of these animals lived in excellent nutritive condition for periods varying between one and seven months, when each in turn developed symptoms of acute jaundice (bile pigment in urine, yellowing of sclera and skin) accompanied by rise in rectal temperature, anuria and progressive bodily weakness, ending fatally in from two to three days after the onset.
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Bryce records a case of anuria of seventeen days 'standing.
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There was reported the case of an hysterical female who had convulsions and mania, alternating with anuria of a peculiar nature and lasting seven days.
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Dubuc observed a case of anuria which continued for seventeen days before the fatal issue.
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There was reported the case of an hysterical female who had convulsions and mania, alternating with anuria of a peculiar nature and lasting seven days.
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Actual retention of urine, that is, urinary secretion passed into the bladder, but retention in the latter viscus by inanition, stricture, or other obstruction, naturally cannot continue any great length of time without mechanically rupturing the vesical walls; but suppression of urine or absolute anuria may last an astonishingly extended period.
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Dubuc 15.121 observed a case of anuria which continued for seventeen days before the fatal issue.
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Bryce 15.119 records a case of anuria of seventeen days 'standing.
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Actual retention of urine, that is, urinary secretion passed into the bladder, but retention in the latter viscus by inanition, stricture, or other obstruction, naturally cannot continue any great length of time without mechanically rupturing the vesical walls; but suppression of urine or absolute anuria may last an astonishingly extended period.
chained_bear commented on the word anuria
"The next day another wire came: 'Lewis condition critical. Anuria supervened Saturday.'
"His kidneys were failing and he was producing no urine. All the toxins that the body normally rid itself of were now building up in his system...."
—John M. Barry, The Great Influenza (NY: Penguin Books, 2004), 443
February 18, 2009