hyperuria

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noun

Increased frequency of urination and/or increased quantity of urine.

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nounhyperuria (uncountable)
  1. uncountableIncreased frequency of urination and/or increased quantity of urine.

    The animals became less active and hyperuria developed (the amount of urine: 62 ml/day in C; 103.6 ml/day in LT).

    1985, Physiologia Bohemoslovaca - Volume 34, page 461
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    Between my insomnia at being in a strange bedroom and my hyperuria, I was awake most of the night, and I never saw Braddy get up once.

    1991, Michael Petracca, Doctor Syntax, page 197

    And these diagnoses were facilitated by the patients relating to me that they had hyperphagia (a voracious appetite), hyperuria (having to urinate frequently), and a considerably strong thirst for water.

    2004, Louis August Gottschalk, World War II: Neuropsychiatric Casualties, Out of Sight, Out of Mind, →ISBN
  2. uncountableAn increased concentration of metabolites in the urine.

    An increased concentration of a metabolite in the bloodstream (hyperemia) often results in an increased concentration in the urine (hyperuria).

    1999, Tom Brody, Nutritional Biochemistry, →ISBN, page 170
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    In some cases the diseases give rise to destruction of leucocytes, causing the production and excretion of much uric acid ; in these cases the hyperuria is the consequence of the primary disease.

    1897, The Monthly Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine. V.1-21, V.22, No. 1-5

    Also, the relatively high frequency of TRPV5 p.Ala563Thr variant in African Americans, which exhibited an increased Ca²⁺ influx in in vitro assays was not investigated for their function in Ca²⁺ hyperuria in African Americans.

    2015, Arpad Szallasi, TRP Channels as Therapeutic Targets: From Basic Science to Clinical Use, →ISBN
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