to micturate
- verb
- /ˈmɪk.tʃə.reɪt/
- Specialized
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miccionar
- VUR has been diagnosed with increasing frequency in infants by fetal ultrasonography, showing hydronephrosis, and micturating cystourethrography soon after birth.
Examples
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The radiation burden of a micturating cystourethrogram is an order of magnitude higher than that for an isotopic test.
Academic text (2000) -
Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the person?
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Who else would hike out to these desolate trenches to micturate?
Academic text (2012) -
I needed to shave, comb my hair, dress, eat, micturate, work on my novel, jog up and down the steps at the university stadium, pay bills, read the paper, and take the car in for an oil change.
Fiction book (2000) -
I just want to understand this, sir—every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the—
Fiction book (1998) -
The parents had no history of renal disease, and their DMSA isotope renograms were normal; micturating cystourethrography was not done.
Academic text (2000) -
The other 11 siblings, aged 1-15 years, were screened by micturating cystourethrography, and VUR was found in four (numbers 1, 6, 10, and 12).
Academic text (2000) -
Thus, about 50% of the siblings of index cases are found to have VUR when screened by micturating cystourethrography before the age of 2 years; whereas there is a risk of about 1 in 2 for VUR in children of individuals already known to have the condition.
Academic text (2000) -
Micturating cystourethrography is the preferred initial investigation for a male child so that urethral defects causing secondary VUR can also be visualized.
Academic text (2000) -
It's time for him to micturate before the long journey begins.
Synonyms
947
8.3
To pass urine in rude speech
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2.6
To let out the body's yellow liquid
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9.3
To pee or pass urine from your body
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9.5
To pee when you need the toilet
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9.7
To pee when you need to go to the toilet
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8.1
To pass urine from the body, often said to children
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9.2
To pee, often used about children or animals
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9.1
To pass urine from the body
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9.9
To go to the toilet to pee
To let urine come out of your body
Antonyms
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
micturate = mictur + ate
Formed from the Latin combining form 'mictur-' plus the verb-forming suffix '-ate'; the combining form is not a recognisable standalone English word, so learners cannot readily infer the meaning from English components.
Etymology
Micturate comes from an old Latin word that meant 'to make water' and is the origin of the medical word micturition, with the same idea as the everyday word urinate. So, to micturate is to 'pass urine' from the body.