diuresis
IPA: daɪurʌsɪs
noun
- (biology, medicine) Excessive production of urine; polyuria.
- (biology, medicine) (more often) The physiologic process that produces such an increase.
- (biology, medicine) (most often) The administration of medications to encourage that process.
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Examples of "diuresis" in Sentences
- The initial rapid weight loss is due to the phenomenon of diuresis.
- · China "root" (Poria cocos); a fungus growing on pine tree roots, promotes diuresis; and
- I am a registered nurse and I have some working knowledge that the atrium produces a peptide that causes diuresis.
- However after a few days, the process of diuresis commences on its own again and there is further reduction in the weight.
- Often when people drop their carbs – as they do if they switch to Splenda – they have a diuresis and get rid of a lot of potassium in their urine.
- Heavy ketosis can bring about a little diuresis, which can lead to a little dehydration, making the urine more concentrated and therefor more yellow.
- For the pt who requires more diuresis, it is easier to drop the hctz & add furosemide again dirt cheap & keep the ACE rather than switching off a combination.
- I once had a patient—ironically, a psychiatrist—who was absolutely sure he had diabetes insipidus, when in fact it was his huge fluid intake that was producing his voluminous diuresis.
- Nguyen MT, Pavlock CT, Zderic SA, Carr MC, Canning DA: Overnight catheter drainage in children with poorly compliant bladders improves post-obstructive diuresis and urinary incontinence.
- There were side effects even for the most amenable child: restlessness and insomnia, complete loss of appetite, diuresis, a tendency to “facilitate the flow of thought, generally at the expense of concentration,” and “a rather fictitious sense of fitness, self-confidence, and well-being.”
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