Void

Void
To urinate. Just as we can void a check and empty it of value, so can we void our bladder and empty it of urine.
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- flow v. in magnetic resonance imaging, the absence of signal from blood whose activated protons leave a region before their magnetization is measured. SEE ALSO: signal v..
- signal v. in magnetic resonance imaging, a region emitting no radiofrequency signal, because there are no activated protons in the region (such as flowing blood), because a different element predominates, particularly calcium, or because of uncompensated dephasing, such as occurs at air-tissue interfaces in the lung.

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void 'vȯid vt to discharge or emit <\void urine> vi to eliminate solid or liquid waste from the body <frequent \voiding>

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(void) excrete.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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