[1880–85; bacill- + -uria]This word is first recorded in the period 1880–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Chief of Staff, automatism, impressionism, rain check, regionalism-uria is a combining form with the meanings “presence in the urine” of that specified bythe initial element (albuminuria; pyuria), “condition of the urinary tract,” “tendency to urinate,” as specified (polyuria)