combining form of L. ūrīn-a URINE sb.1, occurring in various terms, as urinogenitary, = URINOGENITAL a. 1; urinologist, a urologist; urinology (see quot. and cf. UROLOGY b); urinomancy, diagnosis of diseases by examination of the urine; urinopyknometer (see quot.); urinoscopic, of or pertaining to the inspection of urine as a means of diagnosing diseases (Cent. Dict., 1891); urinoscopist, -scopy, = UROSCOPIST, -SCOPY.
1878. F. J. Bell, Gegenbaur’s Comp. Anat., 523. The vascular system, and *urino-genitary organs.
1897. Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, 18 June, 5/2. The doctor was again summoned to … produce urine in the presence of the *urinologist.
1900. Nature, 17 May, 53/2. The book should be of value to urinologists.
1860. R. Fowler, Med. Voc., *Urinology, the branch of Medicine which treats of the urine. [Hence in various Dicts.]
1904. G. S. Hall, Adolescence, I. 116. The many centuries when *urinomancy and urinoscopy vied with astrology.
1948. G. Sarton, Introd. Hist. Sci., III. II. 1207. The first [physician] wrote a regimen for the emperor Charles IV, a book on medicinal waters, and treatises on the plague, bloodletting, and urinomancy.
1997. Independent, 28 June, 34/1. Even urinomancy and scatomancy (divination by urine and faeces) became neatly absorbed into the departments of urology and proctology.
1905. Brit. Med. Jrnl., July, 27. The *urino pyknometer … is serviceable for making a rough clinical estimate of the specific gravity of small quantities of urine.
1836. R. Furness, Astrologer, II. Poet. Wks. (1858), 146. Let some one … Take Thor’s first morning water in a phial, And give the *Urinoscopist a trial. Ibid., 150. Volumes of *Urinoscopy.
1839. Spillan, trans. Schill’s Outl. Pathol. Semeiology, 7. With that exception, ignorance and superstition prevailed in this half of the second period. Urinoscopy occupied the place of semeiology.
1904. [see urinomancy above].
