DIURETIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diuretic mean? 

• DIURETIC (noun)
  The noun DIURETIC has 1 sense:

1. any substance that tends to increase the flow of urine, which causes the body to get rid of excess water

  Familiarity information: DIURETIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIURETIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any substance that tends to increase the flow of urine, which causes the body to get rid of excess water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

diuretic; diuretic drug; water pill

Hypernyms ("diuretic" is a kind of...):

drug (a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diuretic"):

chlorthalidone; Hygroton; Thalidone (a diuretic (trade names Hygroton and Thalidone) used to control hypertension and conditions that cause edema; effective in lowering blood pressure to prevent heart attacks)

Edecrin; ethacrynic acid (diuretic (trade name Edecrin) used to treat edema)

furosemide; Lasix (commonly used diuretic (trade name Lasix) used to treat hypertension and edema)

indapamide; Lozal (diuretic (trade name Lozal) used in the treatment of hypertension)

mannitol; Osmitrol (a diuretic (trade name Osmitrol) used to promote the excretion of urine)

thiazide (any of a group of drugs commonly used as diuretics in the treatment of hypertension; they block the reabsorption of sodium in the kidneys)

 Context examples 

A sulfamoylchlorobenzoic acid derivative with diuretic activity.

(Besulpamide, NCI Thesaurus)

The sodium salt form of mersalyl acid, a mercurial diuretic.

(Mersalyl, NCI Thesaurus)

A benzothiadiazine-sulfonamide derivative belonging to the class of the thiazide diuretics.

(Methyclothiazide, NCI Thesaurus)

A monosulfamyl belonging to the class of loop diuretics.

(Azosemide, NCI Thesaurus)

I had, the evening before, drunk plentifully of a most delicious wine called glimigrim, (the Blefuscudians call it flunec, but ours is esteemed the better sort,) which is very diuretic.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A synthetic pyrazine derivative with antikaliuretic and diuretic properties.

(Amiloride, NCI Thesaurus)

The hydrochloride salt of amiloride, a synthetic pyrazine derivative with antikaliuretic and diuretic properties.

(Amiloride Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Aminometradine appears to inhibit the reabsorption of sodium ions by the renal tubules and is a relatively weak diuretic.

(Aminometradine, NCI Thesaurus)

A sulphonamide-derivative with thiazide-like diuretic activity.

(Meticrane, NCI Thesaurus)

A mixture containing 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol and 8-bromotheophylline (a methylxanthine) in a 1:1 ratio, with mild diuretic activity.

(Pamabrom, NCI Thesaurus)