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Anuria vs Null - What's the difference?

anuria | null |

As nouns the difference between anuria and null

is that anuria is (medicine) a condition in which the kidneys do not produce urine while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

anuria

English

(wikipedia anuria)

Noun

  • (medicine) A condition in which the kidneys do not produce urine.
  • * 2007 , Nain D. Chohan (editor), Nursing: Interpreting Signs & Symptoms , page 39,
  • Clinically defined as urine output of less than 100 ml in 24 hours, anuria' indicates either urinary tract obstruction or acute renal failure due to various mechanisms.' Anuria is rare; even with renal failure, the kidneys usually produce at least 75 ml of urine daily.
  • * 2008 , Ronald M. Perkin, Dale A. Newton, James D. Swift (editors), Pediatric Hospital Medicine: Textbook of Inpatient Management , 2nd edition, page 359,
  • Changes in urinary pattern such as polyuria, oliguria, anuria , enuresis, and excessive thirst can be associated with tubular dysfunction.
  • * 2011 , Boris Lams, Oliguria'', Mark Kinirons, Harold Ellis (editors), ''French's Index of Differential Diagnosis: An A-Z , page 467,
  • It goes without saying, therefore, that obstructive anuria can occur only if the outflow from both kidneys or from the only functioning kidney is obstructed.

    Anagrams

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    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----