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Andy Holmes

He died in London in 2010 after contracting a water-borne disease, Leptospirosis, that comes from contact with rat urine or ingesting water contaminated with rat urine.

Benu Sen

Sen was undergoing treatment at a private hospital treatment at Barasat near Kolkata, from 7 to 15 April 2011, as he had been suffering from retention of urine due to prostate enlargement and low hemoglobin count due to his previous heart problem with diabetes mellitus.

Clinical chemistry

Urinalysis - chemical analysis of urine for a wide array of diseases, along with other fluids such as CSF and effusions

Cyanogen halide

Rhodanese catalyzes the irreversible reaction forming thiocyanate from cyanide and sulfane which is non-toxic and can be excreted through the urine.

Extravasation of urine

An injury to the urethra leaving Buck's fascia intact results in a collection of urine (extravasation) limited to the penis, deep to Buck's fascia.

Fena

Fractional sodium excretion (FENa), a medical parameter representing the fraction of sodium in urine relative to the fraction of sodium in circulation

Ferguson v. City of Charleston

Soon after the urine screenings began, the case manager in the hospital's obstetrics department heard that police in Greenville, South Carolina, were arresting pregnant women who used cocaine for child abuse.

Hemosiderinuria

Hemoglobinuria is another indicator of intravascular hemolysis, but disappears more quickly than hemosiderin, which can remain in the urine for several weeks; therefore, hemosiderinuria is a better marker for intravascular hemolysis.

Henry Bence Jones

In 1847, he described the Bence Jones protein, a globulin protein found in blood and urine, suggestive of multiple myeloma or Waldenström's macroglobulinemia.

Hydronephrosis

Hydronephrosis — literally "water inside the kidney" — refers to distension and dilation of the renal pelvis and calyces, usually caused by obstruction of the free flow of urine from the kidney.

Ian Dennis / Fox Bronte

In January 2010, he drank different coloured juices to change the colour of his urine - to create a portrait of British National Party leader Nick Griffin.

Jane Flemming

At the Ulster Games in Belfast on 30 June 1986 Flemming, on request of Australian team manager Maurie Plant, infamously provided a urine sample to allow another athlete, Sue Howland, to use Flemming's urine pass a drug test.

Light chain deposition disease

Proteinuria, loss of protein in the urine, is characteristic.

Loop of Henle

:Sodium (Na+), potassium (K+) and chloride (Cl-) ions are reabsorbed from the urine by secondary active transport by a Na-K-Cl cotransporter (NKCC2).

Male menstruation

Male menstruation is a term occasionally unofficially used for a type of bleeding in the urine or faeces, reported in some tropical countries.

Mariano Natalio Carrera

His urine test was confirmed to have tested positive for the steroid Clenbuterol.

Maximum Absorbency Garment

A Maximum Absorbency Garment (MAG) is a piece of clothing NASA astronauts wear during liftoff, landing, and extra-vehicular activity (EVA) to absorb urine and feces.

Mechanical hemolytic anemia

March hematuria, occurs when blood is seen in the urine after repetitive impacts on the body, particularly affecting the feet (such as running on a hard road or Kendo) and hands (e.g. Conga or Candombe drumming).

Methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta

On July 17, 2008, Italian bicycle racer Riccardo Riccò was kicked out of the Tour de France after reports that a urine sample tested positive for Mircera.

Mycobacterium hassiacum

Mycobacterium hassiacum is a rapid-growing thermophilic mycobacterium that was isolated in human urine in 1997 by researchers at the German University of Regensburg.

Norboletone

In 2002, Don Catlin, the founder and then-director of the UCLA Olympic Analytical Lab, identified norboletone for the first time in an athlete’s urine sample.

Ovulation induction

Recombinant HCG (rHCG), recombinant luteinizing hormone (rLH) and urine-derived hCG (uHCG) are equally effective in achieving final follicular maturation in IVF with regards to pregnancy rates and risk of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome.

Premarin

Animal welfare groups claim that animal husbandry and urine collection methods used in Premarin's production cause undue stress and suffering to the mares involved.

Purple urine bag syndrome

This converts indoxyl sulfate in the urine into the red and blue colored compounds indirubin and indigo.

Red urine

Hematuria, the presence of red blood cells (erythrocytes) in the urine

Hemoglobinuria, excess hemoglobin filtered by the kidneys into the urine

Sacral nerve stimulation

Urinary urge incontinence is a condition in which a strong urge to urinate is followed by an involuntary loss of urine.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Fraser-Pryce served a six-month ban from athletics after a urine sample taken at the 2010 Shanghai Diamond League meeting was found to contain a non-banned narcotic, Oxycodone.

Sialuria

Sialuria is a condition where there is increased Sialic acid in the urine.

Sunday Night Show

He impersonated "The Merchant" from Resident Evil 4 He wanted to buy things from other listeners, sang many classic songs and was accused by Iain of having an obsession with urine after a failed call involving a urine chart during Triple M. The Merchant was confused at the fact he had an enemy called "The Alpha" and doesn't know how him and "The Alpha" became enemies.

Taking the piss

Another theory is that, when tanners had huge pots outside where they worked, the public would be encouraged to urinate into these pots as tanners used the urine to help with tanning and then the saying of "taking the piss" came into use.

Toilet Bowl

Toilet, a sanitation fixture used primarily for the disposal of human excrement and urine

Trevor Graham

An unsent letter written by BALCO's Victor Conte to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency described the use of an oral testosterone by Graham that "will clear the body and be undetectable in urine in less than a week after discontinuing use." At the end of the letter, Gatlin was one of four athletes identified as using the drug.

Uricosuria

Hyperuricosuria, an abnormally high level of uric acid in the urine

Urinary incontinence

Stress test – the patient relaxes, then coughs vigorously as the doctor watches for loss of urine.

Urine anion gap

Usually the most important unmeasured ion in urine is Urine diversion

Haiti - SOIL has built urine-diversion toilets and composting waste treatment plants in Port-au-Prince as part of the 2010 Haiti earthquake emergency relief effort and in northern Haiti.

Vayrann

The horse's urine sample had been found to contain Estrane-3.17 Diol a substance produced by the breakdown of anabolic steroids.


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