Word Meanings - HYDRONEPHROSIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An accumulation of urine in the pelvis of the kidney, occasioned by obstruction in the urinary passages.

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• OCCASIONALISM
  The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.
• OBSTRUCTIONIST
  One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body. -- a.
• OCCASIONABLE
  Capable of being occasioned or caused. Barrow.
• KIDNEY-FORM; KIDNEY-SHAPED
  Having the form or shape of a kidney; reniform; as, a kidney- shaped leaf. Gray.
• OCCASIONALLY
  In an occasional manner; on occasion; at times, as convenience requires or opportunity offers; not regularly. Stewart. The one, Wolsey, directly his subject by birth; the other, his subject occasionally by his preferment. Fuller.
• OBSTRUCTION
  1. The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed. 2. That which obstructs or impedes; an obstacle; an impediment; a hindrance. A popular assembly free from obstruction. Swift. 3. The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their
• URINE
  In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion. Note: In man, the urine is a clear, transparent fluid of an amber color and peculiar odor, with an average density of 1.02. The average amount
• ACCUMULATION
  The concurrence of several titles to the same proof. Accumulation of energy or power, the storing of energy by means of weights lifted or masses put in motion; electricity stored. -- An accumulation of degrees , the taking of several together,
• OCCASIONAL
  1. Of or pertaining to an occasion or to occasions; occuring at times, but not constant, regular, or systematic; made or happening as opportunity requires or admits; casual; incidental; as, occasional remarks, or efforts. The... occasional writing
• OCCASIONER
  One who, or that which, occasions, causes, or produces. Bp. Sanderson.
• OCCASIONALITY
  Quality or state of being occasional; occasional occurrence.
• KIDNEY
  A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland. Note: In man and in other mammals there are two kidneys, one each side of vertebral column in the back part of the abdomen, each kidney
• OCCASION
  to fall down; ob + cadere to fall. See Chance, and cf. 1. A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident. The unlooked-for incidents of family history, and its hidden excitements, and
• URINARY
  1. Of or pertaining to the urine; as, the urinary bladder; urinary excretions. 2. Resembling, or being of the nature of, urine. Urinary calculus , a concretion composed of some one or more crystalline constituents of the urine, liable to be found
• OCCASIONATE
  To occasion. The lowest may occasionate much ill. Dr. H. More.
• KIDNEYWORT
  A kind of saxifrage . The navelwort.
• OBSTRUCTIONISM
  The act or the policy of obstructing progress. Lond. Lit. World.
• PELVIS
  The pelvic arch, or the pelvic arch together with the sacrum. See Pelvic arch, under Pelvic, and Sacrum.
• DASYURINE
  Pertaining to, or like, the dasyures.
• FURFURINE
  A white, crystalline base, obtained indirectly from furfurol.
• TAURINE
  Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle.
• AVENTURINE
  A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica. ~= feldspar, a variety of oligoclase with internal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone. (more info) 1. A kind
• XENURINE
  A cabassou.
• DATURINE
  Atropine; -- called also daturia and daturina.
• ESURINE
  Causing hunger; eating; corroding. Wiseman.
• TIMBURINE
  A tambourine.
• VENTURINE
  Gold powder for covering varnished surfaces.
• VULTURINE
  Of or pertaining to a vulture; resembling a vulture in qualities or looks; as, the vulturine sea eagle (Gypohierax Angolensis); vulturine rapacity. The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its possessor. C. Kingsley.
• GUTTURINE
  Pertaining to the throat. "Gutturine tumor." Ray.
• GENITOURINARY
  See UROGENITAL
• LEMURIDOUS; LEMURINE
  Lemuroid.
• SCIURINE
  Of or pertaining to the Squirrel family. -- n.
• SEMIOCCASIONALLY
  Once in a while; on rare occasions.