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• diuretick (obsolete)

語源

From 中期英語 diuretyk, from Old French diuretique; ultimately from Ancient Greek διουρητικός (diourētikós). By surface analysis, diuresis +‎ -etic.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /daɪ(j)əˈɹɛtɪk/
• 韻: -ɛtɪk
• 異形同音異義語: diarrhetic, diaeretic

形容詞

diuretic (comparative more diuretic, superlative most diuretic)

1. (medicine, pharmacology) Increasing the amount or frequency of urination.
   • 2003, European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy, ESCOP Monographs: The Scientific Foundation for Herbal Medicinal Products‎, page 426:

     Blackcurrant leaf has a diuretic action [11,12,14], therefore it should not be taken concurrently with diuretics indicated for cardiac or renal insufficiency except on medical advice.

   • 2016, Maurice M. Iwu, Food as Medicine: Functional Food Plants of Africa:

     Further experiments are needed to elaborate the exact mechanisms of the hypotensive and diuretic effects of diterpene kaurenoids.

派生語

名詞

diuretic (plural diuretics)

1. (medicine, pharmacology) A drug or a substance that increases the rate of urine excretion.
   • 2003, European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy, ESCOP Monographs: The Scientific Foundation for Herbal Medicinal Products‎, page 426:

     Blackcurrant leaf has a diuretic action [11,12,14], therefore it should not be taken concurrently with diuretics indicated for cardiac or renal insufficiency except on medical advice.

   • 2023 June, Malvina Hoxha, Bruno Zappacosta, “Meteoropathy: a review on the current state of knowledge”, in Journal of Medicine and Life‎, volume 16, number 6, →DOI, archived from the original on 14 July 2025, pages 837-841:

     Since vasodilatation is a side effect of diuretics but also occurs in thermoregulation, diuretics should be reduced in meteoropathic individuals to prevent extremely dangerous situations [38, 39].

使用する際の注意点

• The words diuretic and dieretic have a similar sound in their pronunciation depending on a speaker's accent.

等位語

• carminative
• laxative

派生語

• loop diuretic