This week’s theme
Words related to medicine

This week’s words
antitussive
aperient
emetic
diuretic
analgesic

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(dy-uh-RET-ik)

MEANING:

adjective: Causing an increased production of urine.
noun: A substance that causes such an increase.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin diureticus, from Greek diouretikos, from diourein (to urinate), from dia- (across) + ourein (urinate), from ouron (urine). Earliest documented use: 1400.

USAGE:

“Once the diuretics kicked in, Mary Bliss talked and cried and peed and kept drinking all of Katharine’s expensive bottled water.”
Mary Kay Andrews; Little Bitty Lies; Perennial; 2004.

See more usage examples of diuretic in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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