Category: U

Sexual excitation associated with urine or urination (e.g., watching another person urinate or having another person urinate on one’s own body). Arousal induced by observing someone urinate.  

Resulting reflexly from stimulation of the urinary organs.  

A pathological condition of the kidney in which the pelvis is distended with blood and urine. Expansion of the kidney due to a combination of blood and urine.  

A red-brown pigment sometimes found in samples of urine, especially in cases of porphyrinuria.  

A device for recording urine flow; used to quantitate obstruction to urine flowing from the bladder.  

The volume of urine voided in a specified period. Low flow rates associated with high bladder pressures occur in bladder outlet obstruction.  

A fluorescent compound present in the urine of persons taking riboflavin.  

Blue discoloration of the urine; possibly due to the presence of indigo blue from oxidation of indican or to ingestion of drugs such as methylene blue. The blue tint in urine, typically due to an excess of indican—a glucoside that, when oxidized, becomes indigo blue. This condition is also known as indicanuria.  

Any of a family of neuropeptides functionally related to corticotropin-releasing hormone that decreases appetite, delays gastric emptying, and decreases distal colonic motility.  

Urobilinogen in the blood.