Definitions

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

  • adjective Of, relating to, or involving both the urinary and genital structures or functions.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the urinary and genital organs; urinogenital. Also urinogenital, urinogenitary, genito-urinary.
  • noun A urogenital organ.

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

  • adjective (Anat.) Same as urinogenital.

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

  • adjective medicine of, or relating to the urinary and/or the genital systems

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

  • adjective of or relating to the urinary and reproductive systems

Etymologies

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uro- +‎ genital

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Examples

  • By the fifth or sixth week this body forms an elongated spindle-shaped structure, termed the urogenital fold (Fig. 1106), which projects into the celomic cavity at the side of the dorsal mesentery, reaching from the septum transversum in front to the fifth lumbar segment behind; in this fold the reproductive glands are developed.

    XI. Splanchnology. 3. The Urogenital Apparatus 1918

  • —The deep fascia of the urogenital region forms an investment for the Transversus perinæi profundus and the Sphincter urethræ membranaceæ, but within it lie also the deep vessels and nerves of this part, the whole forming a transverse septum which is known as the urogenital diaphragm.

    IV. Myology. 1F. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Perineum 1918

  • But shelter spokeswoman Peita Elkhorne said yesterday that Sam had developed abdominal cysts due to a disease called urogenital chlamydiosis, which affects up to 50 per cent of Australia's koala population.

    News 2009

  • Rates were significantly higher in mountaintop mining areas for six of seven types of defects: circulatory/respiratory, central nervous system, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, urogenital, and 'other'.

    Allen Hershkowitz: Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining: The National Research Council Should Investigate Allen Hershkowitz 2011

  • A recent study, "The association between mountaintop mining and birth defects among live births in central Appalachia, 1996-2003," has provided irrefutable evidence that six out of seven types of birth defects -- circulatory/ respiratory, central nervous system, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, urogenital and "other" -- related to contaminants released into nearby environments from mountaintop removal operations are too high a price to pay for an unnecessary way of mining.

    Jeff Biggers: Appeal to Action: Appalachian Leaders Launch Mountaintop Removal Moratorium Now Campaign Jeff Biggers 2011

  • A recent study, "The association between mountaintop mining and birth defects among live births in central Appalachia, 1996-2003," has provided irrefutable evidence that six out of seven types of birth defects -- circulatory/ respiratory, central nervous system, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, urogenital and "other" -- related to contaminants released into nearby environments from mountaintop removal operations are too high a price to pay for an unnecessary way of mining.

    Jeff Biggers: Appeal to Action: Appalachian Leaders Launch Mountaintop Removal Moratorium Now Campaign Jeff Biggers 2011

  • The most common sites are the structures of the head and neck, the urogenital tract, and the arms and legs.

    Rhabdomyosarcoma 2010

  • A recent study, "The association between mountaintop mining and birth defects among live births in central Appalachia, 1996-2003," has provided irrefutable evidence that six out of seven types of birth defects -- circulatory/ respiratory, central nervous system, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, urogenital and "other" -- related to contaminants released into nearby environments from mountaintop removal operations are too high a price to pay for an unnecessary way of mining.

    Jeff Biggers: Appeal to Action: Appalachian Leaders Launch Mountaintop Removal Moratorium Now Campaign Jeff Biggers 2011

  • We also care for children with adrenal, kidney, ureter, bladder and urethral problems and cancers that occur within the urogenital tract.

    Urology 2010

  • I learned that certain turtles can extract oxygen from the water through specialized tissue in their throat and urogenital organs, for example, and that others can negotiate a maze as well as a rat.

    Arthur Rosenfeld: Extinction in the Gulf 2010

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