Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The presence of blood in the urine.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In pathology, the presence of blood in the urine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Passage of urine mingled with blood; blood in the urine.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun pathology The presence of blood in the urine

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the presence of blood in the urine; often a symptom of urinary tract disease

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Examples

  • Her kidney function is way whacked, and she has gross hematuria, which is why Marty wanted me on board.

    Critical Conditions White, Stephen, 1951- 1998

  • Her kidney function is way whacked, and she has gross hematuria, which is why Marty wanted me on board.

    Critical Conditions White, Stephen, 1951- 1998

  • Her kidney function is way whacked, and she has gross hematuria, which is why Marty wanted me on board.

    Critical Conditions White, Stephen, 1951- 1001

  • I'll bet that the number of people with microscopic hematuria that you need to send for cystoscopy and IVP in order for a single person to benefit is also quite high.

    Presenting Health Statistics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Finally, bloody stools, transient albuminuria, and transient hematuria are occasionally seen in helicopter pilots flying heavy schedules.

    Hey JSC: ARC Has A Centrifuge You Can Use (update) - NASA Watch 2009

  • My mind was still preoccupied with him when an outgoing intern started telling me about the simple, straightforward elderly woman with back flank pain and hematuria who was "probably in the CT scanner even as we speak."

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • My mind was still preoccupied with him when an outgoing intern started telling me about the simple, straightforward elderly woman with back flank pain and hematuria who was "probably in the CT scanner even as we speak."

    How Do You Sleep at Night? 2008

  • Gross hematuria, as we docs call this condition so you know we're special, in this context is cancer either kidney or bladder until proven otherwise, so I got started on the workup.

    Archive 2007-12-01 1 Dinosaur 2007

  • Gross hematuria, as we docs call this condition so you know we're special, in this context is cancer either kidney or bladder until proven otherwise, so I got started on the workup.

    Coolest Phone Call Ever 1 Dinosaur 2007

  • Here's the thing: gross hematuria blood in the urine; lots of blood in the urine although also caused by kidney stones or really bad bladder infections, has to be considered cancer until proven otherwise.

    Archive 2007-01-01 1 Dinosaur 2007

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