hyperuria

Increased frequency of urination and/or increased quantity of urine.

Noun

  1. Increased frequency of urination and/or increased quantity of urine.
    • The animals became less active and hyperuria developed (the amount of urine: 62 ml/day in C; 103.6 ml/day in LT). - 1985, Physiologia Bohemoslovaca - Volume 34, page 461:
    • 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. - 1991, Michael Petracca, Doctor Syntax, page 197:
    • 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. - 2004, Louis...
  2. An increased concentration of metabolites in the urine.
    • 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. - 1897, The Monthly...
    • An increased concentration of a metabolite in the bloodstream (hyperemia) often results in an increased concentration in the urine (hyperuria). - 1999, Tom Brody, Nutritional Biochemistry, →ISBN, page 170:
    • 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...