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Definition: Urinary pigments
Urinary
\U"ri*na*ry\, a. [L. urina urine: cf. F. urinaire.]
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1. Of or pertaining to the urine; as, the urinary bladder;
urinary excretions.
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2. Resembling, or being of the nature of, urine.
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Urinary calculus (Med.), a concretion composed of some one
or more crystalline constituents of the urine, liable to
be found in any portion of the urinary passages or in the
pelvis of the kidney.
Urinary pigments, (Physiol. Chem.), certain colored
substances, urochrome, or urobilin, uroerythrin, etc.,
present in the urine together with indican, a colorless
substance which by oxidation is convertible into colored
bodies.
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