urine
nounEtymology
From Middle English uryne, from Latin ūrīna (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *uh₁r-, zero grade of *woh₁-r̥ (“water, liquid, milk”). Related to *h₁ówHdʰr̥ (“udder”) (see udder). Cognate with Old English ūriġ (“wet, moist”). Displaced native English land (“urine”) (from Middle English land, from Old English hland (“urine”)), though lant survives with a specialized sense.
Definitions
Liquid waste consisting of water, salts, and urea, which is made in the kidneys, stored…
Liquid waste consisting of water, salts, and urea, which is made in the kidneys, stored in the bladder, then released through the urethra.
- An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
To urinate.
- He got out of bed every time he urined, or tried to urine.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at urine. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at urine. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at urine
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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