urethroscopy (urethroskopi)

Inspection of the urethral mucous membrane by means of the urethroscope. ure thro to me (u-re thrō-tom), (u-rethrō-tom), n. [ IMG:content-1626.png:[ocr errors] ure thro to mic (u-re-thrō-tom'ik), a. [ uretic (u-ret'ik), a. [Also ouretic; urge (èrj), v.; pret. and pp. urged, ppr. urging. [L. urgere, pre , push, force, drive, urge; perhaps akin to vergere, bend, turn, and Gr. είργειν (* Fειργειν), repre , constrain, εἱργνύναι, shut in, Skt. V varj, wrench. Cf. verge2 and wrick, wreak.] I. trans. 1. To pre ; impel; force onward. Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave. Pope , Imit. of Hor., II. ii. 253. Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow. Shelley, Adonais, xxi. 2. To hasten laboriously; quicken with effort. And there will want at no time who are good at circum- stances; but men who set their minds on main matters, and sufficiently urge them in these most difficult times, I find not many. Milton , Free Commonwealth. Through the thick deserts headlong urg'd his flight. Pope , tr. of Statius's Thebaid, i. 3. To pre the mind or will of; serve as a motive or impelling cause; impel; constrain; IMG:content-1627.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] IMG:content-1628.png:[blocks in formation] the auk family, as U. troile, the common foolish murre or guillemot, and U. grylle, the black guillemot. Since the genus Lomvia was instituted for the former, Uria has usually been restricted to the latter, in which sense it is otherwise called Cephus or Cepphus. See cuts under guillemot and murre. uric (ū'rik), a. [= F. urique = Sp. Pg. urico, Creation dumb, unconscious, yet alive With some deep inward pa ion unexpre ed, And swift, concentric, never-ceasing urge. R. W. Gilder, The Celestial Pa ion, Recognition. = Sp. Pg.