urobilinuria

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

urobilin +‎ -uria

Noun[edit]

urobilinuria (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, obsolete) The presence of urobilin in the urine.
    • 1916, Henry Leopold Elsner, The Prognosis of Internal Diseases, volume 6, page 783:
      Urobilinuria is frequent with scarlet fever (Jugendreich) particularly with the malignant or more severe types. The mild cases of measles may show moderate urobilinuria, the more severe are likely to give positive reaction.