diuretic

English

Alternative forms

• diuretick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English diuretyk, from Old French diuretique; ultimately from Ancient Greek διουρητικός (diourētikós). By surface analysis, diuresis +‎ -etic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /daɪ(j)əˈɹɛtɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛtɪk
• Homophones: diarrhetic, diaeretic

Adjective

diuretic (comparative more diuretic, superlative most diuretic)

1. (medicine, pharmacology) Increasing the amount or frequency of urination.
   • 2003, European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy, ESCOP Monographs: The Scientific Foundation for Herbal Medicinal Products‎^[1], page 426:

     Blackcurrant leaf has a diuretic action [11,12,14], therefore it should not be taken concurrently with diuretics indicated for cardiac or renal insufficiency except on medical advice.

   • 2016, Maurice M. Iwu, Food as Medicine: Functional Food Plants of Africa:

     Further experiments are needed to elaborate the exact mechanisms of the hypotensive and diuretic effects of diterpene kaurenoids.

Derived terms

• antidiuretic
• diuretically
• nondiuretic
• osmodiuretic

 

Translations

increasing urination

• Belarusian: мачаго́нны (mačahónny), дыўрэты́чны (dyŭretýčny)
• Catalan: diürètic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 利尿 (lei⁶ niu⁶)

  Hokkien: 利尿 (zh-min-nan) (lī-jiō, lī-liō)

  Mandarin: 利尿 (zh) (lìniào)

• Czech: diuretické, močopudné
• Finnish: diureettinen (fi)
• French: diurétique (fr)

  Middle French: diuretique

  Old French: diuretique

• Galician: diurético (gl) m
• German: harntreibend (de), diuretisch (de)
• Hungarian: vízhajtó (hu)
• Maori: whakamimi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vanndrivende (no)

• Polish: moczopędny (pl), diuretyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: diurético (pt)
• Romanian: diuretic (ro)
• Russian: мочего́нный (ru) (močegónnyj), диурети́ческий (ru) (diuretíčeskij)
• Spanish: diurético (es)
• Turkish: diüretik
• Ukrainian: сечогі́нний (sečohínnyj), діурети́чний (diuretýčnyj)

Noun

diuretic (plural diuretics)

1. (medicine, pharmacology) A drug or a substance that increases the rate of urine excretion.
   • 2003, European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy, ESCOP Monographs: The Scientific Foundation for Herbal Medicinal Products‎^[2], page 426:

     Blackcurrant leaf has a diuretic action [11,12,14], therefore it should not be taken concurrently with diuretics indicated for cardiac or renal insufficiency except on medical advice.

Coordinate terms

• carminative
• laxative

Derived terms

• loop diuretic

Translations

drug

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 利尿劑／利尿剂 (lei⁶ niu⁶ zai¹)

  Mandarin: 利尿劑／利尿剂 (zh) (lìniàojì)

• Czech: diuretikum n
• Finnish: diureetti (fi)
• French: diurétique (fr) m

  Middle French: diuretique m

  Old French: diuretique m

• Galician: diurético (gl) m
• German: harntreibendes Mittel n, Diuretikum (de) n
• Greek: διουρητικό (el) n (diouritikó)
• Hungarian: vízhajtó (hu)
• Maori: rongoā whakamimi
• Polish: diuretyna f
• Portuguese: diurético (pt) m
• Russian: мочего́нное (ru) n (močegónnoje), диуре́тик (ru) m (diurétik)
• Turkish: diüretik

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French diurétique, from Latin diureticus.

Adjective

diuretic m or n (feminine singular diuretică, masculine plural diuretici, feminine and neuter plural diuretice)

1. diuretic

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	diuretic		diuretică		diuretici	diuretice
	definite	diureticul		diuretica		diureticii	diureticele
genitive- dative	indefinite	diuretic		diuretice		diuretici	diuretice
	definite	diureticului		diureticei		diureticilor	diureticelor