oliguria

1. 1.

   abnormally small production of urine; can be a symptom of kidney disease or obstruction of the urinary tract or edema or an imbalance of fluids and electrolytes in the body

   Broadersymptom
2. 2.

   production of an abnormally small amount of urine

   Broadermicturition

Other forms of oliguria

plural

oligurias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about oliguria

What does oliguria mean?

oliguria means "abnormally small production of urine; can be a symptom of kidney disease or obstruction of the urinary tract or edema or an imbalance of fluids and electrolytes in the body". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oliguria?

oliguria has 5 syllables: o-li-gu-ri-a. The stress falls on "gu".

Is oliguria a common word?

oliguria is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.