Belhaven, NC. Sponsored Topics. Belhaven is a town in Beaufort County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,968 at the 2000 census. Belhaven is located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region. Belhaven is the hometown of singer Little Eva whose song The Loco-motion was a US #1 hit in 1962.
diuretic. adj. 1. (Pathology) acting to increase the flow of urine. n. 2. (Pharmacology) a drug or agent that increases the flow of urine.
Diuretics are drugs that work in the kidney to increase urine flow, and thus, decrease extracellular fluid (ECF) volume. Diuretics are used to treat disorders in which for various reasons, there is an unhelpful increase in extracellular fluid volume. Two important examples are heart failure and hypertension.