Crossword-Solution: ANURIA 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

There was reported the case of an hysterical female who had convulsions and mania, alternating with anuria of a peculiar nature and lasting seven days.

Actual retention of urine, that is, urinary secretion passed into the bladder, but retention in the latter viscus by inanition, stricture, or other obstruction, naturally cannot continue any great length of time without mechanically rupturing the vesical walls; but suppression of urine or absolute anuria may last an astonishingly extended period.

Intense constipation, anorexia, and alternate states of dysuria, anuria, and polyuria followed, and before long her sister began to fail in health, owing to the incessant exactions to which she too willingly yielded.

Anuria and albuminuria have consequently passed from the textbooks on hysteria, just as Babinski believes that hysterical edema and hysterical exaggeration of the reflexes are bound to pass.

Silvester[580] and Valdes[581] report on giddiness, headache and anuria in cases observed by them; whether the eosinophilia recorded by Bücklers[582] and Bruns[583] is due to the toxin of Strongyloides must remain an open question.