POLYURIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does polyuria mean? 

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

1. renal disorder characterized by the production of large volumes of pale dilute urine; often associated with diabetes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLYURIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Renal disorder characterized by the production of large volumes of pale dilute urine; often associated with diabetes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

kidney disease; nephropathy; nephrosis; renal disorder (a disease affecting the kidneys)

Holonyms ("polyuria" is a part of...):

diabetes (a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood; any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst)

 Context examples 

Patients present with anemia, polyuria, and polydipsia during childhood.

(Familial Juvenile Nephronophthisis, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical signs include obesity, short stature, pubertal delay, hypogonadism, visual impairment, polydipsia and polyuria.

(Frohlich Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

It is associated with slight increase of the plasma cystine, cystinuria, aminoaciduria, glycosuria, polyuria, hypophosphatemia, rickets, and renal tubular dysfunction. —2004

(Cystinosis, NCI Thesaurus)