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Your body's confession under oath, read by a lab instead of a priest.
means A lab test of urine used to check for signs of disease, infection, or other health clues hiding in your body's waste.
from A straightforward compound of 'urine' (from Latin 'urina') plus 'analysis' (from Greek 'analysis,' meaning 'a breaking up' or 'loosening' — from 'ana-' meaning 'up' and 'lyein' meaning 'to loosen'). Doctors have been eyeballing urine for diagnostic clues since antiquity — a practice called uroscopy — but 'urinalysis' itself is a modern, clinical-sounding fusion, born once chemistry gave physicians actual tools to break the stuff down rather than just squint at its color.
- color clue
- bright yellow just means you're hydrated, not healthy
- ancient roots
- doctors once tasted urine to diagnose diabetes
- sugar tell
- glucose in urine can signal undiagnosed diabetes
- pregnancy test
- detects hCG hormone, same trick since the 1960s