a. (and sb.). Comp. Anat. [f. URO-1 + GENITAL a. Cf. F. urogenital and URINOGENITAL a.]

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  1.  adj. Pertaining or belonging to the urinary and genital products or organs; genito-urinary.

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1848.  Quain’s Elem. Anat., II. 1278. Transformation of the uro-genital sinus.

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1870.  Rolleston, Anim. Life, p. xlvii. All Mammalia have a urogenital canal independent … of the termination of the intestine.

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1883.  E. R. Lankester, in Encycl. Brit., XVI. 693/2. In the Ostrea edulis fertilization of the eggs is effected at the moment of their escape from the uro-genital groove.

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  2.  sb. A urogenital organ. Usu. pl.

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1891–.  in various Dicts.

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  So Urogenitary a.

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1883.  Lancet, 19 May, 875/2. Co-existent defects of urogenitary organs.

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