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uroscopy|jʊˈrɒskəpɪ|
Also 7 ouroscopie, 9 -scopy.
[ad. mod.L. uroscopia: see uro-1 and -scopy, and cf. Sp. uroscopia, F. uroscopie.]
1. The scientific examination of urine, esp. as a means of diagnosing diseases; = urinoscopy.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. To Rdr. A 4, Composed by snatches of time, as medicall vacations and the fruitlesse importunity of Vroscopy would permit us. [1656Blount. 1658Phillips.] 1804Edin. Rev. III. 415 Uroscopy has, in some measure, given way to cranioscopy. 1863W. O. Markham tr. Anal. Urine, etc. 281 The progress of Organic Chemistry, and the general study of the microscope, first gave its scientific value to uroscopy. 1888Libr. Mag. (N.Y.) Mar. 252 As a physician he was skilful in dietetics and uroscopy.
†2. Divination by inspection of the urine; = uromancy. Obs. rare.
1650H. Brooke Conserv. Health 209 The Vanities and Deceits of Vroscopy, or Devination by Vrin. 1651Wittie Primrose's Pop. Err. To Rdr., Many of them doe by Ouroscopie or Chiromancie undertake to tell Fortunes. 1857Mayne Expos. Lex. 847 Ouroscopia,..ouroscopy.
Hence uroˈscopic a. [F. uroscopique] = urinoscopic a. (Cent. Dict., 1891); ˈuroscopist, one skilled or versed in uroscopy.
1889Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. VII. 403/2 Actuarius, the ‘Uroscopist’ of the Byzantine court, described in the minutest detail the visible changes of urine in health and in disease. |