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Blood in your urine — your bladder's way of screaming into a cup.
means A medical condition in which blood is present in the urine, which can range from visible pinkness to microscopic traces only a lab test catches.
from Built from Greek haima ('blood') and ouron ('urine'), the same haima that gives us hemorrhage and hemoglobin, and the same ouron that surfaces in words like urea. Medical Latin and Greek compounders stitched the two together to name the symptom plainly — blood, in urine — the way so much of anatomical vocabulary was assembled: by bolting two true Greek parts together rather than inventing something new.
- not always scary
- can be beeturia from eating too many beets
- two types
- gross hematuria you see, microscopic you don't
- common culprits
- UTIs, kidney stones, or hard exercise
- never ignore
- painless blood can signal bladder cancer early