Terms Related to Nocturia

• Polyuria

  Urination of a large volume of urine with an increase in urinary frequency, commonly seen in diabetes.

• Urine Concentrating Ability

  The ability of the kidney to excrete in the urine high concentrations of solutes from the blood plasma.

• Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus

  A polyuric disorder characterized by normal rates of renal filtration and solute excretion, but a persistent hypotonic urine. This condition is due to the failure ...

• Osmotic Diuretics

  Compounds that increase urine volume by increasing the amount of osmotically active solute in the urine. Osmotic diuretics also increase the osmolarity of plasma.

• Ovestin

  A metabolite of ESTRADIOL and usually the predominant estrogenic metabolite in urine. During pregnancy, large amounts of estriol are produced by the placenta. It has ...

• Bacteriuria

  The presence of bacteria in the urine with or without consequent urinary tract infection. Since BACTERIURIA is a clinical entity, the term does not preclude ...

• Kidney Concentrating Ability

  The ability of the kidney to excrete in the urine high concentrations of solutes from the blood plasma.