[ad. med.L. *ūrīnārius (whence It., Sp., Pg. urinario, It. orinario, F. urinaire), f. ūrīna URINE sb.1]
1. Affording passage to, effecting or assisting in the secretion and discharge of, urine.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, V. 83. The begynnyng of the Urinarie passage.
1600. Surflet, Countrie Farme, II. xxvi. 235. The decoction … casteth out grauell contained in the vrinarie vessels.
1625. Hart, Anat. Ur., II. i. 52. A stoppage of the Liuer, kidneyes, and the vrinarie vessels.
1688. [see 3 a].
1728. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Bladder, From whence it takes various Denominations, as Urinary-Bladder, Gall-Bladder, &c.
1732. Arbuthnot, Rules of Dict, in Aliments, etc., I. 358. Everything which drives the Blood into the Urinary Canals.
1794. G. Adams, Nat. & Exp. Philos., I. xi. 488. The alkaline solution … is apt … to prove irritating to the urinary passages.
1843. Penny Cycl., XXVI. 50/1. Indicating … the state of the urinary system.
1864. Garrod, Mat. Med. (ed. 2), 93. It is desirable to keep uric acid in solution during its transit through the urinary organs.
1877. Rosenthal, Muscles & Nerves (1881), 98. The urinary duct, in which each drop of urine leaving the kidneys produces a wave which propagates itself … to the urinary bladder.
2. Of the nature of urine; excreted as urine.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., V. v. 239. Whereby it [sc. the bladder] dischargeth the waterish and urinary part of its aliment.
1822. Good, Study Med., IV. 500. The urinary secretion in a state of health is one of the most compound fluids of the animal system.
1872. Huxley, Physiol., V. 105. The urinary fluid flows … into the bladder.
1874. Garrod & Baxter, Mat. Med. (ed. 4), 129. Citrate of potash sits easily upon the stomach, and … slightly increases the urinary water.
† b. = URINOUS a. 1. Obs.–1
1819. Rees’ Cycl., XXXVII. s.v., Some urinary salts crystallize when precipitated.
3. a. Adapted for using on the urinary passage.
1688. Holme, Armoury, III. xx. (Roxb.), 237/2. The Lapidillum … is a spoon…; with it the stone is taken out of the Urinary passages. Some call it the Urinary Probe.
b. Adapted for receiving or containing urine.
1822. Good, Study Med., IV. 494. In incontinence of urine…, the patient will find it very convenient to be provided with a light urinary receptacle.
4. a. Lodged or formed in the urinary organs or bladder; excreted in the urine.
c. 1793. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), XI. 91/2. Urinary calculi.
1797. Wollaston, in Phil. Trans., LXXXVII. 386. On Gouty and Urinary Concretions.
1808. Nicholson’s Jrnl., XX. 317. Analysis of a Urinary Calculus.
1845. Encycl. Metrop., VII. 580. Of Urinary Deposits. Ibid. Precipitable substances … which … form urinary sediments.
1857. Dunglison, Med. Lex., 427/2. Diabetic, Urinary, and Hepatic sugar.
1887. A. M. Brown, Anim. Alkaloids, 65. The urinary alkaloid obtained by Pouchet.
b. Of or pertaining to, affecting or occurring in, the urinary system or organs.
1822. [see URINAL a. 1 b].
1828–32. Webster, s.v., Urinary abscesses.
1845. G. E. Day, trans. Simon’s Anim. Chem., I. 59. Laws of much importance in urinary pathology.
1874. Van Buren, Dis. Genit. Org., i. Its urinary function is purely secondary.
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 478. When lessened urinary excretion is purely functional in its origin.
1890. Lancet, 14 June, 1295/1. Urinary fever is believed by some to be neurotic in its origin.
