URINARY SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does urinary system mean? 

• URINARY SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun URINARY SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. the system that includes all organs involved in reproduction and in the formation and voidance of urine

  Familiarity information: URINARY SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• URINARY SYSTEM (noun)

Meaning:

The system that includes all organs involved in reproduction and in the formation and voidance of urine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

apparatus urogenitalis; genitourinary apparatus; genitourinary system; systema urogenitale; urinary apparatus; urinary system; urogenital apparatus; urogenital system

Hypernyms ("urinary system" is a kind of...):

system (a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts)

Meronyms (parts of "urinary system"):

excretory organ; urinary organ (an organ that separates waste substances from the blood and discharges them)

genital system; reproductive system (organs and tissues involved in the production and maturation of gametes and in their union and subsequent development as offspring)

urinary tract (the organs and tubes involved in the production and excretion of urine)

urinary bladder (a membranous sac for temporary retention of urine)

ureter (either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder)

urethra (duct through which urine is discharged in most mammals and which serves as the male genital duct)