a. Also 8 -poetic. [ad. mod.L. uropoietic-us: see URO-–1 and POIETIC a., and cf. F. uropoétique.] Concerned with, of or pertaining to, the secretion of urine; secreting or excreting urine.
1783. H. Watson in Med. Commun., I. 234. The uropoetic viscera were not … diseased.
1793. T. Beddoes, Calculus, 37. Such an action of the uropoietic organs.
1839–47. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., III. 366/1. The uropoietic system … communicates with the respiratory cavity.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., i. 62. Uropoietic organs … are probably represented by the water-vascular system and segmental organs of the worms.
