diuretic

• diuretick (obsolete)

From Middle English diuretyk, from Old French diuretique; ultimately from Ancient Greek διουρητικός (diourētikós). By surface analysis, diuresis +‎ -etic.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /daɪ(j)əˈɹɛtɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtɪk
• Homophones: diarrhetic, diaeretic

diuretic (comparative more diuretic, superlative most diuretic)

1. (medicine, pharmacology) Increasing the amount or frequency of urination.
   • 2003, European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy, ESCOP Monographs: The Scientific Foundation for Herbal Medicinal Products‎^[1], page 426:

     Blackcurrant leaf has a diuretic action [11,12,14], therefore it should not be taken concurrently with diuretics indicated for cardiac or renal insufficiency except on medical advice.

   • 2016, Maurice M. Iwu, Food as Medicine: Functional Food Plants of Africa:

     Further experiments are needed to elaborate the exact mechanisms of the hypotensive and diuretic effects of diterpene kaurenoids.

diuretic (plural diuretics)

1. (medicine, pharmacology) A drug or a substance that increases the rate of urine excretion.
   • 2003, European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy, ESCOP Monographs: The Scientific Foundation for Herbal Medicinal Products‎^[2], page 426:

     Blackcurrant leaf has a diuretic action [11,12,14], therefore it should not be taken concurrently with diuretics indicated for cardiac or renal insufficiency except on medical advice.

• The words diuretic and dieretic have a similar sound in their pronunciation depending on a speaker's accent.

• carminative
• laxative

• loop diuretic

Borrowed from French diurétique, from Latin diureticus.

diuretic m or n (feminine singular diuretică, masculine plural diuretici, feminine and neuter plural diuretice)

1. diuretic