URINARY TRACT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does urinary tract mean? 

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

1. the organs and tubes involved in the production and excretion of urine

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• URINARY TRACT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The organs and tubes involved in the production and excretion of urine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

tract (a system of body parts that together serve some particular purpose)

Meronyms (parts of "urinary tract"):

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

urinary bladder (a membranous sac for temporary retention of urine)

ureter (either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder)

urethra (duct through which urine is discharged in most mammals and which serves as the male genital duct)

Holonyms ("urinary tract" 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 

This cholinergic agonist also increases the tone of smooth muscle in the gastrointestinal and urinary tracts.

(Cevimeline, NCI Thesaurus)

Some C. genitalium strains are commensal in the urinary tract while other strains are associated with urinary tract infections.

(Corynebacterium genitalium, NCI Thesaurus)

This relaxes vascular smooth muscle, mainly of the urinary tract, and prevents smooth muscle contractions.

(Flavoxate Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

E. aerogenes is found in the gastrointestinal tract and is an opportunistic pathogen commonly acquired nosocomially, causing skin, soft tissue, respiratory, urinary tract and eye infections.

(Enterobacter aerogenes, NCI Thesaurus)

Ochratoxin A is reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen and may be associated with an increased risk of developing urinary tract tumors.

(Ochratoxin A, NCI Thesaurus)

It reaches high urinary concentrations and may be used in the treatment of urinary tract infections.

(Carumonam, NCI Thesaurus)

Piromidic acid is used in the treatment of urinary tract and intestinal infections.

(Piromidic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

It is used orally as a urinary tract analgesic.

(Phenazopyridine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

A neoplastic lesion of the urinary tract transitional cell epithelium characterized by papillary formations. — 2003

(Papillary Urothelial Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A hamartomatous polyp that occurs in the stomach, small and large intestines, and rarely within the esophagus, nasopharynx and the urinary tract.

(Peutz-Jeghers Polyp, NCI Thesaurus)