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Diuretic   /dˌaɪurˈɛtɪk/   Listen
Diuretic

noun
1.
Any substance that tends to increase the flow of urine, which causes the body to get rid of excess water.  Synonyms: diuretic drug, water pill.






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"Diuretic" Quotes from Famous Books



... sedge rush, common in swampy places in the West India islands, the Adme cyperus, enjoys a reputation for the cure of yellow fever. It is also stated to be cordial, diuretic and cephalic, serviceable in the first stages of the dropsy, good in ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds

... waters embrace nearly all of these except the last two; some of the springs being saline, some chalybeate, some sulphur, and nearly all carbonated; and in the list may be found cathartic, alterative, diuretic and tonic waters of varied shade and differing strength. The cathartic waters are the most numerous and the most extensively used. The curative agents prepared in the vast and mysterious laboratories of Nature are very complex in constitution and different ...
— Saratoga and How to See It • R. F. Dearborn

... week will be found amply sufficient. After using the "Cascade" it will be found extremely beneficial to inject from a half pint to a pint of cool water and retain it. This will be found not only a valuable rectal tonic, but an excellent diuretic as well, as it will pass off by way of the kidneys, cleansing and purifying ...
— The Royal Road to Health • Chas. A. Tyrrell

... neat and well-intended address[32] to the mechanics upon their combinations. Will it do good? Umph. It takes only the hand of a Lilliputian to light a fire, but would require the diuretic powers of Gulliver to extinguish it. The Whigs will live and die in the heresy that the world is ruled by little pamphlets and speeches, and that if you can sufficiently demonstrate that a line of conduct is most consistent with men's interest, you have therefore and ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott



Words linked to "Diuretic" :   thiazide, chlorthalidone, diuretic drug, furosemide, Lasix, indapamide, Edecrin, mannitol, Hygroton, Lozal, Osmitrol, drug, water pill, Thalidone, ethacrynic acid



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