URINARY SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does urinary system mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• URINARY 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 ("urinary system" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "urinary 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 

By taking several X-rays over a short period of time, it is possible to check for the proper functioning of both kidneys and the urinary system.

(Intravenous pyelography, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples are the gastrointestinal system, urinary system, and hematopoietic system.

(Organ System, NCI Thesaurus)

It treats certain diseases of the digestive or urinary systems.

(Ostomy, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

EXAMPLE(S): gastrointestinal system, urinary system, hematopoietic system

(Performed Observation Result Body System Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A non-metastasizing neoplasm that arises from the organs that comprise the urinary system.

(Benign Urinary System Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A finding of damage to the urinary system during a surgical procedure.

(Intraoperative Urinary System Injury, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Damage to any part of the urinary system during a surgical procedure.

(Intraoperative Urinary System Injury, NCI Thesaurus)

An abnormal tract between the urinary system and the anterior surface of the gynecologic structures.

(Genitourinary Fistula, NCI Thesaurus)

Route of drug administration through the irrigation of organs pertaining to the genital and urinary systems.

(Genitourinary Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

Lymphoid tissue located beneath the mucosal epithelia of those mucosal surfaces that have contact with the external environment, such as the respiratory, digestive, and urinary systems.

(Mucosa-Associated Lymphoid Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)