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Source: Wisdom Library: Rasa-śāstra

Urograha (उरोग्रह) refers to “enlargement of the region between the spleen and the liver” according to the fifth volume of the Rasajalanidhi (chapter 7). Accordingly, “the flesh and the intestine in the region situated between the spleen and the liver are enlarged [i.e., urograha] owing to the eating of articles of food-stuff increasing an excess of phlegm and dirt, heavy food, and dry or stale meat. This disease is due to abnormal excess of phlegm and wind. It has sometimes the appearance of a bifurcated mass and some times that of a tortoise. Symptoms of this disease:—weakness, dullness of the digesting heat, emaciation, lust for meat, and blackness or yellowishness of the skin. At advanced stages of this disease, there are fever, aversion to food, thirst, and swelling”.

Unclassified Ayurveda definitions

Source: Wisdom Library: Āyurveda and botany

Urograha (उरोग्रह) translates to “chest-seizure” and refers to the enlargement of the region between the spleen and the liver.

Source: Google Books: Diagnosis and treatment of diseases in Āyurveda

Urograha (उरोग्रह) refers to “stiffness in the sides of the chest and abdomen”.—By the intake of excessively abhiṣyandi (which obstructs channels of circulation) and heavy food, and dry as well as putrefied meat, the fat and muscle tissue of liver and spleen get increased suddenly which causes urograha because of the affliction of the lumber regions by the aggravated kapha and vāyu.

Signs and symptoms of Urograha.—Stiffness, acute pain, ununctuousness, tenderness, heaviness, ādhmāna (abdominal distension), dryness of lumber and cardiac regions, obstruction to the passage of flatus, stool and urine, drowsiness, anorexia and colic pain—these are signs and symptoms of urograha.

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Urograha (उरोग्रह).—a disease of the chest, pleurisy.

Derivable forms: urograhaḥ (उरोग्रहः).

Urograha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms uras and graha (ग्रह). See also (synonyms): uroghāta.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Urograha (उरोग्रह).—m.

(-haḥ) Pain of the chest, pleurisy. E. uras and graha what seizes.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Urograha (उरोग्रह):—[=uro-graha] [from uro > uras] m. ‘chest-seizure’, pleurisy, [Śārṅgadhara-saṃhitā]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Urograha (उरोग्रह):—[uro-graha] (haḥ) 1. m. Pleurisy.

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Urograha in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Uro, Graha, Uras.

Full-text: Uroghata, Tryambakabhra.

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Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 5: Treatment of various afflictions (by Bhudeb Mookerjee)

Chapter 7 - Symptoms and treatment of Urograha

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