URINARY ORGAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does urinary organ mean? 

• URINARY ORGAN (noun)
  The noun URINARY ORGAN has 1 sense:

1. an organ that separates waste substances from the blood and discharges them

  Familiarity information: URINARY ORGAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• URINARY ORGAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An organ that separates waste substances from the blood and discharges them

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

excretory organ; urinary organ

Hypernyms ("urinary organ" is a kind of...):

internal organ; viscus (a main organ that is situated inside the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "urinary organ"):

flame cell (organ of excretion in flatworms)

kidney (either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine)

Holonyms ("urinary organ" is a part of...):

apparatus urogenitalis; genitourinary apparatus; genitourinary system; systema urogenitale; urinary apparatus; urinary system; urogenital apparatus; urogenital system (the system that includes all organs involved in reproduction and in the formation and voidance of urine)

 Context examples 

Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.

(Genitourinary, NCI Thesaurus)