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  2. Trimethylaminuria - Wikipedia

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    Fishy smelling urine is a primary identifying symptom in infant children (Trimethylaminuria literally meaning "trimethylamine in urine"). [citation needed] Trimethylamine is also released in the person's sweat, reproductive fluids, and breath, and can give off a fishy odor when the concentration of trimethylamine is high enough to be detected.

  3. What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You If Your Pee Smells - AOL

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    Experiencing smelly urine isn't fun, but there are many causes (and treatments!) for foul, sweet or ammonia-like scents you should know about. Experiencing smelly urine isn't fun, but there are ...

  4. Body odor - Wikipedia

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    Body odor, however, can be used as an indication for disease. For example, typically, human urine contains 95% water, [41] however, for a person with an abnormal amount of blood sugar, their urine becomes more concentrated with glucose. [42] Therefore, if a person's body odor or urine smells unusually fruity or sweet, that can be a sign of ...

  5. Here's Why Your Pee Might Smell Weird Even When Nothing ... - AOL

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    Urine consists of things like ammonia, creatinine, urochrome (which gives urine its typical yellowish color), urea (from amino acid metabolism), and water. It's a delicate balance between all ...

  6. Urinal deodorizer block - Wikipedia

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    The new water-soluble blocks improve the cleaning of the pipes which helps to reduce odor. Some recent formulations also include bacterial spores which, coupled with the surfactant cleaning power, can more completely get rid of odors and blockages caused by the buildup of solids in the traps and pipes.

  7. The bearcat is a real animal and it smells like ... - AOL

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    That's right: The smell doesn't come from the bearcat's scent glands, as previously suspected; it comes from urine. Hot, buttered popcorn urine. Despite the nickname, bearcats aren't bears or cats.

  8. Urinalysis - Wikipedia

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    The odor (scent) of urine can normally vary from odorless (when very light colored and dilute) to a much stronger odor when the subject is dehydrated and the urine is concentrated. [36] Transient changes in urine odor can occur after consuming certain foods, most notably asparagus .

  9. Smell as evidence of disease - Wikipedia

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    Smell as evidence of disease has been long used, dating back to Hippocrates around 400 years BCE. [1] It is still employed with a focus on volatile organic compounds (VOCs) found in body odor. [ 2 ] VOCs are carbon-based molecular groups having a low molecular weight, secreted during cells' metabolic processes. [ 3 ]