hyperuria

English

Noun

hyperuria (uncountable)

1. Increased frequency of urination and/or increased quantity of urine.
   • 1985, Physiologia Bohemoslovaca - Volume 34, page 461:

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

   • 1991, Michael Petracca, Doctor Syntax, page 197:

     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.

   • 2004, Louis August Gottschalk, World War II: Neuropsychiatric Casualties, Out of Sight, Out of Mind, →ISBN:

     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.

2. An increased concentration of metabolites in the urine.
   • 1897, The Monthly Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine. V.1-21, V.22, No. 1-5:

     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.

   • 1999, Tom Brody, Nutritional Biochemistry, →ISBN, page 170:

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

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

     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.