diuresis

From New Latin diūrēsis, from Ancient Greek διουρέω (diouréō, “to urinate”) + -σις (-sis).

Morphologically, δῐουρέω (dĭouréō) can be analysed as δι- (di-) + οὐρέω (ouréō).

• IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪjʊˈɹiːsɪs/

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• Rhymes: -iːsɪs

diuresis (countable and uncountable, plural diureses)

1. (biology, medicine) Excessive production of urine; polyuria.
2. (biology, medicine) (more often) The physiologic process that produces such an increase.
3. (biology, medicine) (most often) The administration of medications to encourage that process.

• antidiuresis
• diurese (back-formation)
• overdiuresis
• underdiuresis

• diuretic

• eusirids

Learned borrowing from New Latin diūrēsis, from Ancient Greek διουρέω (diouréō, “to urinate”) + -σις (-sis).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /diuˈresis/ [di.uˈre.sɪs]
• Rhymes: -esis
• Syllabification: di‧u‧re‧sis

diuresis (uncountable)

1. (biology, medicine, physiology) diuresis

• “diuresis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /djuˈɾesis/ [d̪juˈɾe.sis]
• Rhymes: -esis
• Syllabification: diu‧re‧sis

diuresis f (plural diuresis)

1. diuresis

• “diuresis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024