Assertion: urine | /r/HasProperty | sterile
Facets:
value: normally
type: DEGREE
value: except in cases
type: OTHER
value: very
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Earlier studies, with less sophisticated analytical techniques, had found that urine was sterile until it reached the urethra.
text: "Urine has long been a 'favored' biofluid among metabolomics researchers," because it is sterile and can be obtained easily in large volumes, the scientists wrote in their study published Wednesday (Sept. 4) in the journal PLOS ONE.
text: Is urine sterile?
text: Most people believe that urine is sterile, but lately research has shown that bacteria can be picked up in the urethra, and bladder neck, which make urine not sterile after all.
text: So why did we ever believe that urine was sterile?
text: Tim Spicer, a nephrologist and the director of Renal Services at Southwest Sydney Local Health District, agrees the myth that urine is sterile probably persisted over the centuries in the absence of the advanced technologies needed to detect tiny urinary microbiota.
text: Except in cases where you have a bladder or urinary infection, urine is very sterile.
text: After all, the common wisdom holds, urine is sterile.
text: It appears that the dogma that urine is sterile was an unintended consequence,” Hilt says.
text: So back to our original question: If urine isn’t sterile, does that mean you shouldn’t pee on a wound?
text: You also may have heard that urine is sterile, so you can pee on yourself with abandon and still technically be clean.
text: If you thought urine was sterile, we can’t blame you.
text: Urine is actually sterile when it exits the body, save for rare cases of a bladder infection or salmonella poising.
text: Urine is sterile until it reaches the urethra, where epithelial cells lining the urethra are colonized by facultatively anaerobic gram-negative rods and cocci.
text: Normally urine is light yellow, clear and sterile, especially if collected mid-stream, but during reactions it may become offensive and cloudy.
text: Urine is mostly water, and it is sterile until it reaches the urethra.