How many ounces of pee do people pee on average?


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Urine is liquid waste excreted (Excretion is the biological process by which an organism separates waste products from its body..) by the kidney (Either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine; urine passes out of the kidney through ureters to the bladder) and eventually expelled from the body in a process known as urination (The discharge of urine), Exception Handler: No article summary found.Most commonly the excretion of urine serves for flushing waste molecules collected from the blood (The fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped by the heart) by the kidneys, Exception Handler: No article summary found.and for the homeostasis (Metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via the autonomic nervous system to offset disrupting changes) of the body liquids; however, Exception Handler: No article summary found.many species also use it for olfactory (Olfaction, the sense of odor|smell, is the detection of chemicals dissolved in air (or, by animals that breathe.) communication (Something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups).

Composition

Urine is a transparent solution that is light yellow to amber in colour, Exception Handler: No article summary found.It is the byproduct or waste fluid secreted by the kidneys, Exception Handler: No article summary found.transported by the ureters to the urinary bladder where it is stored until it is voided through the urethra, Exception Handler: No article summary found.Urine is made up of a watery solution of metabolic wastes (such as urea), Exception Handler: No article summary found.dissolved salts and organic materials, Exception Handler: No article summary found.Fluid and materials being filtered by the kidneys -destined to become urine- comes from the blood or interstitial fluid (Liquid found between the cells of the body that provides much of the liquid environment of the body)

Exception Handler: No article summary found.The composition of urine is adjusted in the process of reabsorption when essential molecules needed by the body, Exception Handler: No article summary found.such as glucose, Exception Handler: No article summary found.are reabsorbed back into the blood stream via carrier molecules, Exception Handler: No article summary found.The remaining fluid contains high concentrations of urea and other excess or potentially toxic substances that will be released from the body via urination, Exception Handler: No article summary found. Urine flows through the following structures: the kidney, Exception Handler: No article summary found.ureter (Either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder)

Exception Handler: No article summary found.bladder (A distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)), Exception Handler: No article summary found.and finally the urethra (Duct through which urine is discharged in most mammals and which serves as the male genital duct), Exception Handler: No article summary found. Urine is produced by a process of filtration (The act of changing a fluid by passing it through a filter)

Urine contains large amounts of urea (The chief solid component of mammalian urine; synthesized from ammonia and carbon dioxide and used as fertilizer and in animal feed and in plastics), Exception Handler: No article summary found.an excellent source of nitrogen (A common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas; constitutes 78 percent of the atmosphere by volume; a constituent of all living tissues) for plants, Exception Handler: No article summary found.As such it is a useful accelerator for compost (A mixture of decaying vegetation and manure; used as a fertilizer), Exception Handler: No article summary found.Urea is 10,000 times less toxic than ammonia and is a byproduct of deamination (2 NH3 molecules) and cellular respiration's (1 CO2 molecule) products combining together, Exception Handler: No article summary found.Other components include various inorganic salt (A compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)) such as sodium chloride (A white crystalline solid consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl))

Function

Urine is the primary method for excreting chemicals and drugs from the body, Exception Handler: No article summary found.These chemicals can be detected and analysed by urinalysis ((medicine) the chemical analysis of urine (for medical diagnosis))

Although urine is commonly believed to be 'dirty' this is not actually the case, Exception Handler: No article summary found.In cases of kidney or urinary tract infection (Any infection of any of the organs of the urinary tract)(UTI) the urine will contain bacteria ((microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered plants), Exception Handler: No article summary found.but otherwise urine is virtually sterile and nearly odorless when it leaves the body, Exception Handler: No article summary found.However, Exception Handler: No article summary found.after that, Exception Handler: No article summary found.bacteria that contaminate the urine will convert chemicals in the urine into smelling chemicals that are responsible for the distinctive odor (The sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form) of stale urine; in particular, Exception Handler: No article summary found.ammonia (A pungent gas compounded of nitrogen and hydrogen (NH3)) is produced from urea.

Some diseases alter the quantity and consistency of the urine, Exception Handler: No article summary found.(e.g, Exception Handler: No article summary found.sugar (A white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative) in the urine is a sign of diabetes (Any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst), Exception Handler: No article summary found. Urine therapy is the use of urine topically or consumed, Exception Handler: No article summary found.especially as recommended by the traditional Indian medicine, Exception Handler: No article summary found.Ayurveda ((Sanskrit) an ancient medical treatise summarizing the Hindu art of healing and prolonging life; sometimes regarded as a 5th Veda), Exception Handler: No article summary found.under the name Amaroli.

Urine can give an indication of how well hydrated a person is, Exception Handler: No article summary found. A hydrated person will commonly urinate a clear, Exception Handler: No article summary found.water-like urine, Exception Handler: No article summary found.whereas a dehydrated person may pass a darker yellow or brown urine as is often observed the morning after a night's drinking of large quantities of alcohol (A liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent)

Other uses

Aztec (A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519)physicians used urine to clean external wounds to prevent infection, Exception Handler: No article summary found.and administered it as a drink to relieve stomach and intestine problems.

The ancient Romans (A New Testament book containing an exposition of the doctrines of Saint Paul; written in AD 58) used urine as a bleaching agent for cleaning clothes.

In Siberia (A vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters), Exception Handler: No article summary found.to communicate with the spirits, Exception Handler: No article summary found.the Koryak (Koryak may refer to:.) people drank the urine of another who has consumed fly agaric (Poisonous (but rarely fatal) woodland fungus having a scarlet cap with white warts and white gills) a hallucinogenic, Exception Handler: No article summary found.and occasionally fatally poisonous, Exception Handler: No article summary found.mushroom), Exception Handler: No article summary found.or of one who has in turn drunk urine of like source, Exception Handler: No article summary found.Sometimes, Exception Handler: No article summary found.the urine of reindeer that had eaten fly agaric would even be drunk, Exception Handler: No article summary found.The potency of the mushroom does not decrease significantly until around the seventh drinker, Exception Handler: No article summary found.because the muscimol from fly agaric is essentially unaltered after being secreted from the kidneys, Exception Handler: No article summary found.Not only does this conserve the mushrooms, Exception Handler: No article summary found.but it also eliminates unpleasant side-effects caused by muscarine[for more, click this link], Exception Handler: No article summary found.which does not pass on through urine, Exception Handler: No article summary found.Likewise, Exception Handler: No article summary found.reindeer (Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called reindeer in Eurasia and caribou in North America) licked the ground where there is urine containing fly agaric from the religious ritual.

In Japan (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building), Exception Handler: No article summary found.urine used to be sold to farmers who would process it into fertilizers.

The use of urine as a medical treatment or daily health regimen is not uncommon, Exception Handler: No article summary found.Purported beneficiaries of the 'urine cure' include Mohandas Gandhi (Political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule; an advocate of passive resistance (1869-1948)), Exception Handler: No article summary found.Jim Morrison (United States rock singer (1943-1971)), Exception Handler: No article summary found.and Steve McQueen (Thumb|steve McQueen in the great escapesteve mcqueen (March 24, 1930-November 7, 1980).).

During World War I (A war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918), Exception Handler: No article summary found.Canadian soldiers without gas mask (A gas mask is a mask worn on the face to protect the body from airborne pollutants and toxins..) urinated on cloth and wore the cloth during a gas attack.

In recent times, Exception Handler: No article summary found.the Port-a-John (The port-a-john, also called a port-o-let, sani-privy, port-a-san, porta-potty, or any of.) corporation of Utica, Exception Handler: No article summary found.Michigan, Exception Handler: No article summary found.USA (The army of the United States of America; organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare) has developed a filter to collect medically significant protein (Any of a large group of nitrogenous organic compounds that are essential constituents of living cells; consist of polymers of amino acids; essential in the diet of animals for growth and for repair of tissues; can be obtained from meat and eggs and milk a) from users of their chemical toilets.


History

The golden color of urine was previously thought to come from gold, Exception Handler: No article summary found.Alchemist (One who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone) spent much time trying to extract gold from urine, Exception Handler: No article summary found.and this led to some interesting discoveries such as white phosphorus (A multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms), Exception Handler: No article summary found.which was discovered by the German alchemist Hennig Brand in 1669 when he was distilling fermented (In its strictest sense, fermentation (formerly called zymnosis) is the energy-yielding anaerobic metabolic breakdown.) urine, Exception Handler: No article summary found.In 1773 the French chemist Hilaire Rouelle, Exception Handler: No article summary found.discovered the organic compound urea (The chief solid component of mammalian urine; synthesized from ammonia and carbon dioxide and used as fertilizer and in animal feed and in plastics) by boiling urine dry.


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