Also 7 ouroscopie, 9 -scopy. [ad. mod.L. uroscopia: see URO1 and -SCOPY, and cf. Sp. uroscopia, F. uroscopie.]

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  1.  The scientific examination of urine, esp. as a means of diagnosing diseases; = URINOSCOPY.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., To Rdr. A 4. Composed by snatches of time, as medicall vacations and the fruitlesse importunity of Vroscopy would permit us.

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[1656.  Blount.

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1658.  Phillips.]

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1804.  Edin. Rev., III. 415. Uroscopy has, in some measure, given way to cranioscopy.

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1863.  W. O. Markham, trans. Anal. Urine, etc., 281. The progress of Organic Chemistry, and the general study of the microscope, first gave its scientific value to uroscopy.

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1888.  Libr. Mag. (N.Y.), March, 252. As a physician he was skilful in dietetics and uroscopy.

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  † 2.  Divination by inspection of the urine; = UROMANCY. Obs. rare.

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1650.  H. Brooke, Conserv. Health, 209. The Vanities and Deceits of Vroscopy, or Devination by Vrin.

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1651.  Wittie, Primrose’s Pop. Err., To Rdr. Many of them doe by Ouroscopie or Chiromancie undertake to tell Fortunes.

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1857.  Mayne, Expos. Lex., 847. Ouroscopia,… ouroscopy.

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  Hence Uroscopic a. [F. uroscopique], = URINOSCOPIC a. (Cent. Dict., 1891); Uroscopist, one skilled or versed in uroscopy.

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1889.  Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., VII. 403/2. Actuarius, the ‘Uroscopist’ of the Byzantine court, described in the minutest detail the visible changes of urine in health and in disease.

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