Examples
“After the food is all digested, absorbed, and assimilated, having become a part of the bodily organ, bone, muscle, and nerve fiber, then begins the work of tearing it down -- of liberating its heat and energy -- to be followed by its elimination from the body through the sweat glands, uriniferous tubules of the kidneys, etc.”
“Urea Solid By the Dissolved in Removed by oxidation in the plasma. the the liver of uriniferous nitrogenous tubules of compounds. the kidneys and to a small extent by the perspiratory glands.”
“Small vein leaving the capsule and branching into the capillaries (7) which surround the uriniferous tubules.”
“This is because the separation of waste is done in part by the Malpighian capsules and in part by the uriniferous tubules.”
“The second forms a network around the uriniferous tubules and receives the blood which has passed from the capillary clusters into a system of small veins (Fig. 90).”
“In what do the uriniferous tubes have their beginning?”
“Although secreted by the cells lining the uriniferous tubules, it is not formed in the kidneys.”
“The uriniferous tubules are lined with secreting cells.”
“The lining membrane consists of a loose epithelial pavement in many respects similar to that of the uriniferous tubules of the higher animals, the cells containing, besides the nuclei, numerous minute oil-globules, or a substance much resembling concrete fatty matter.”
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
“Richard Bright, the urine always contains albumen, and if accompanied by the "casts" of the uriniferous tubules your report may amount to a sentence of certain death.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘uriniferous’.
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phrontistery-u
from phrontistery.info
uakari, uberous, uberty, ubication, ubiety, ubique, ubiquitarianism, ubity, ucalegon, udal, udometer, ufology and 175 more...
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Bearing and Carrying
Words with the -fer suffix ("that which carries") or the -ferous suffix ("bearing," "producing," or "yielding").
aligerous, aluminiferous, antenniferous, argentiferous, armigerous, arundiferous, auriferous, bacciferous, balaniferous, barbigerous, belliferous, brachiferous and 187 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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Carry Me Home
Another kind of bear list: words bearing the -fer suffix ("that which carries"), the -ferous suffix ("bearing," "producing," or "yielding").
Also see (if you like) Carry Me Home Again.aquifer, conifer, umbellifer, transfer, thurifer, defer, telfer, suffer, rotifer, refer, foraminifer, poriferous and 157 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
Tweets
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yarb ...down in the crazed uriniferous
subway underneath Blake St
(leading to Wordsworth Estate)
spattered with drooled viscid spawl.
- Peter Reading, Going On, 1985 Jun 19, 2009