Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Conveying urine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Conveying urine: as, uriniferous tubes or ducts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bearing or conveying urine.
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- adjective
conveying urine
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Examples
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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 Various
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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.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various
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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).
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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The uriniferous tubules are lined with secreting cells.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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In what do the uriniferous tubes have their beginning?
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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This is because the separation of waste is done in part by the Malpighian capsules and in part by the uriniferous tubules.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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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.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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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.
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
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Small vein leaving the capsule and branching into the capillaries (7) which surround the uriniferous tubules.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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Although secreted by the cells lining the uriniferous tubules, it is not formed in the kidneys.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
yarb commented on the word uriniferous
...down in the crazed uriniferous
subway underneath Blake St
(leading to Wordsworth Estate)
spattered with drooled viscid spawl.
- Peter Reading, Going On, 1985
June 19, 2009