diuretic
/ˌdʌɪjʊ(ə)ˈrɛtɪk
/Medicine
adjective
(Chiefly of drugs) causing increased passing of urine.It may be necessary to increase the diuretic dosage, decrease the beta-blocker dosage or discontinue the beta blocker....
- You have to be brave, silly or very determined to go out shopping shortly after you've taken your daily dose of diuretic pills.
- It supports natural diuretic action, but does not force water from the body like diuretic pills.
noun
A diuretic drug.ACE inhibitors may be a preferred second drug to add to diuretics if necessary to achieve blood pressure control....
- Patients with atrial fibrillation also had more drug days for diuretics and for electrolytes.
- The mean blood pressure readings were the same for the diuretics and the newer drugs.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French diuretique, or via late Latin from Greek diourētikos, from diourein 'urinate', from dia 'through' + ouron 'urine'.
Rhymes
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