diuretic drug

Questions about diuretic drug

What does diuretic drug mean?

diuretic drug means "any substance that tends to increase the flow of urine, which causes the body to get rid of excess water".

What is another word for diuretic drug?

Close synonyms include diuretic, water pill. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is diuretic drug a common word?

diuretic drug is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.