GENITOURINARY SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genitourinary system mean? 

• GENITOURINARY SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun GENITOURINARY SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. the system that includes all organs involved in reproduction and in the formation and voidance of urine

  Familiarity information: GENITOURINARY SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENITOURINARY SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The system that includes all organs involved in reproduction and in the formation and voidance of urine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

apparatus urogenitalis; genitourinary apparatus; genitourinary system; systema urogenitale; urinary apparatus; urinary system; urogenital apparatus; urogenital system

Hypernyms ("genitourinary system" is a kind of...):

system (a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts)

Meronyms (parts of "genitourinary system"):

excretory organ; urinary organ (an organ that separates waste substances from the blood and discharges them)

genital system; reproductive system (organs and tissues involved in the production and maturation of gametes and in their union and subsequent development as offspring)

urinary tract (the organs and tubes involved in the production and excretion of urine)

urinary bladder (a membranous sac for temporary retention of urine)

ureter (either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder)

urethra (duct through which urine is discharged in most mammals and which serves as the male genital duct)

 Context examples 

A finding about one or more characteristics of genitourinary system cancer, following the rules of the TNM AJCC v7 classification system.

(Genitourinary System Cancer TNM Finding v7, NCI Thesaurus)

An abnormality of the genitourinary system that is present at birth or detected in the neonatal period.

(Congenital Genitourinary Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)

Patient complaints (symptoms), physical or laboratory findings (signs) related to the genitourinary system.

(Genitourinary Signs and Symptoms, NCI Thesaurus)

An acute or chronic infectious process affecting any part of the genitourinary system.

(Genitourinary System Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

A finding about one or more characteristics of genitourinary system cancer, following the rules of the TNM AJCC v6 classification system.

(Genitourinary System Cancer TNM Finding v6, NCI Thesaurus)