uremic

1. 1.

   of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine (usually due to kidney insufficiency)

   Synonymsazotemicuraemic

Questions about uremic

What does uremic mean?

uremic means "of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine (usually due to kidney insufficiency)".

How many syllables are in uremic?

uremic has 3 syllables: u-re-mic. The stress falls on "re".

What is another word for uremic?

Close synonyms include azotemic, uraemic. 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 uremic a common word?

uremic 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.