Crossword clues for ureter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ureter \U*re"ter\ (?; 277), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?. See Urine.] (Anat.) The duct which conveys the urine from the kidney to the bladder or cloaca. There are two ureters, one for each kidney.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from medical Latin ureter, from Greek oureter "urinary duct of the kidneys," from ourein "to urinate," from ouron (see urine). Related: Ureteral.
Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) Either of the two long, narrow ducts that carry urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder.
WordNet
n. either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder
Wikipedia
In human anatomy, the ureters are tubes made of smooth muscle fibers that propel urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder. In the adult, the ureters are usually long and ~3–4 mm in diameter. Histologically, the ureter contains transitional epithelium and an additional smooth muscle layer in the more distal one-third to assist with peristalsis.
Usage examples of "ureter".
Finally, he points out the practical bearing of the subject--for example, the probability of calculus causing sudden suppression of urine in such cases--and also the danger of surgical interference, and suggests the possibility of diagnosing the condition by ascertaining the absence of the opening of one ureter in the bladder by means of the cystoscope, and also the likelihood of its occurring where any abnormality of the genital organs is found, especially if this be unilateral.
The only well authenticated case in which the ureter alone was divided is the historic injury of the Archbishop of Paris, who was wounded during the Revolution of 1848, by a ball entering the upper part of the lumbar region close to the spine.
Penrose mentions the absence of the upper two-thirds of the left ureter, with a small cystic kidney, and there are parallel cases on record.
Congenital dilatation of the ureters is occasionally seen in the new-born.
Colzi reports a case in which the left ureter opened externally at the left side of the hymen a little below the normal meatus urinarius.
The ureter serves as a duct for removing the secretion, while the blood supplies the materials from which the secretion is formed.
A second stone, a calcium oxalate crystal, to be precise, lodged in his ureter and, like a pirate radio station, went on the air with a sporadic signal and a musical format programmed by Nazi biologists and prelates from the Inquisition.
When everybody was ready they plugged feedlines from big nutrient tanks into the wimp, connected her ureter and anus to evacuator lines, and jumped back.
Then a hook for reaching up through that opening and pulling the stone down and out between the testicles, and an assortment of variously sized and shaped rakes for scraping the inside of the bladder and probing up into the ureters to find and withdraw any smaller stones that might be a-building in the crannies.
He was able to identify the urinary system—the kidneys, ureters and bladder—but barely.