? Obs. [a. F. urinal (16th c.), ad. late L. ūrīnāl-is, f. ūrīna URINE sb.1]
1. a. Of or pertaining to, consisting or characteristic of, urine.
1541. R. Copland, Guydon’s Quest. Chirurg., I iv. Wherby receyueth the bladder the superfluite vrynal of the kydnees?
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, I. xxxvi. The pisse of that Urinal flood ran glib away.
1703. T. H. (title), Compleat Treatises of Urines, shewing the right Method of Urinal Prognostication.
1743. Lond. & Country Brew., IV. (ed. 2), 285. Though it be of an Urinal Taste.
b. Marked by immoderate discharge of urine.
1822. Good, Study Med., IV. 459. Both [kinds of diabetes] were named indifferently diabetes,… urinary diarrhœa, urinal dropsy, and … water-flux.
2. = URINARY a. I.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man (1631), 212. The Pipe or Canale of the yarde which in greeke they call οὐρήθρα, the vrinal pipe.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, vii. 154. They … purge the reines, and vrinall passages.
a. 1651. Recorde’s Urin. Physick, To Rdr. A 2 b. The Urine … returneth back again in the veines, to the liver and urinall vessels.
1803. Med. Jrnl., X. 512. The effects of … cantharides to the urinal system.
