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1. What exactly means diuresis?

   healthresearch replied to healthresearch's topic in Urology

   I was avoiding the use of in/correctly this whole thread, but the use of diuresis for increased urination is unusual when you know how the related terms have poly- or hyper- prepositions for "more" or "increased" and diuresis does not. Don't you find...

2. What exactly means diuresis?

   healthresearch replied to healthresearch's topic in Urology

   I'm discussing about this disharmony between etymology of diuresis and its explanation by the dictionary authors. Etymologically, as you pasted above, diuresis is dia, through, ouron, urine, which suggests merely urination or literally "urine going t...

3. What exactly means diuresis?

   healthresearch replied to healthresearch's topic in Urology

   I actually try to write for North-American audience but when my writing is published online, everyone can read it. I try to avoid medical terms, including diuresis, as much as possible. I can simply use 24-hour urine collection and so, because I writ...

4. What exactly means diuresis?

   healthresearch replied to healthresearch's topic in Urology

   Both 24-hour diuresis and output are used in North-American websites (pubmed) and international websites (who.int). Urine output is certainly more understandable, especially for patients. Anyway, I would find diuresis explained as urination more intu...

5. What exactly means diuresis?

   healthresearch replied to healthresearch's topic in Urology

   I do not think anyone here, including me, can prove what is the right or wrong usage of the word diuresis, we can merely agree with one or other explanation. It seems diuresis as increased urination is "widely accepted in a medical community," but th...

6. What exactly means diuresis?

   healthresearch replied to healthresearch's topic in Urology

   Kdnurse, by finishing medical faculty in Slovenia and after additional practice period you become a doctor of general practice. I am not working as a physician but, currently, as a health writer. The term diuresis is used in Slovenia and many other l...

7. What exactly means diuresis?

   healthresearch replied to healthresearch's topic in Urology

   If diuresis by itself were meaning increased urination, the article authors would not use the term increased diuresis for increased urination but just diuresis. Yes, by obvious logic, to me, this means, they consider diuresis as normal urination. A w...

8. What exactly means diuresis?

   healthresearch replied to healthresearch's topic in Urology

   I have at least 2 reasons to believe diuresis means only urine production and not increased urine production. 1. Google search site:gov "increased diuresis" gives over 7,000 results, mostly pubmed articles. By an obvious logic, using just "diuresis" ...

9. What exactly means diuresis?

   healthresearch replied to healthresearch's topic in Urology

   Well, OK, "diuresed" is probably not an official term; I mean you can't use the jargon of the medical staff for definitions.

10. What exactly means diuresis?

    healthresearch replied to healthresearch's topic in Urology

    Polyuria is very specific term, which is defined as excreting more than 3 liters of urine per day (in adults), so this is about increased daily volume of urine, which of course results in increased frequency of urination. On the other hand, increased...

11. What exactly means diuresis?

    healthresearch posted a topic in Urology

    I always thought diuresis means normal excretion of urine, but practically every single online dictionary (Merriam Webster, dictionary.com) says diuresis is increased excretion of urine. But the term for excessive urination is polyuria. I really don'...

12. Pneumothorax vs. hypovolemia.

    healthresearch replied to jhwang2's topic in Student Assist

    I can tell the symptoms and signs of spontaneous pneumothorax from my own experience. I had a spontaneous pneumothorax on the left side when I was 23 (I'm male). There was no initial "severe pain" or any pain at all I would be aware of, except from p...

13. Novel Influenza Outbreak (H3N2v) in Ohio and Indiana, August 2012

    healthresearch replied to Laidback Al's topic in COVID

    There's now quite some confusion about the flu names. Seasonal influenza A, subtype H3N2 (spread: human to human) Variant influenza A, subtype H3N2v (spread: pigs to human) (as for now, limited to the U.S.) 2009 Pandemic influenza A, subtype H1N1 (sp...