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URETER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ureter" is a kind of...):
canal; channel; duct; epithelial duct (a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance)
Holonyms ("ureter" is a part of...):
apparatus urogenitalis; genitourinary apparatus; genitourinary system; systema urogenitale; urinary apparatus; urinary system; urogenital apparatus; urogenital system (the system that includes all organs involved in reproduction and in the formation and voidance of urine)
urinary tract (the organs and tubes involved in the production and excretion of urine)
Context examples:
Abnormal enlargement of a kidney, which may be caused by blockage of the ureter (such as by a kidney stone) or chronic kidney disease that prevents urine from draining into the bladder.
(Hydronephrosis, NCI Dictionary)
Abnormal enlargement of the ureter caused by any blockage that prevents urine from draining into the bladder.
(Hydroureter, NCI Dictionary)
It may occur in the nose and/or sinuses or in the urinary tract (bladder, renal pelvis, ureter, urethra).
(Inverted papilloma, NCI Dictionary)
Moderate dilatation of the ureter and the calyces is present.
(Grade IV Vesicoureteral Reflux, NCI Thesaurus)
A procedure in which x-ray images of the kidneys, ureters, and bladder are taken at regular times after a substance that shows up on x-rays is injected into a blood vessel.
(Intravenous pyelography, NCI Dictionary)
This may be done to drain urine from a blocked kidney or blocked ureter into a bag outside the body.
(Nephrostomy, NCI Dictionary)
A usually congenital abnormality characterized by the partial obstruction of the junction between the renal pelvis and ureter.
(Pelviureteric Junction Obstruction, NCI Thesaurus)
Dilatation of the ureter caused by obstruction of urine flow that is present at birth.
(Congenital Hydroureter, NCI Thesaurus)
Either of two arteries (right or left) that arise from the aorta to supply the corresponding ovary, ovarian ligament, uterine tube and ureter.
(Ovarian Artery, NCI Thesaurus)
There is no dilatation of the ureter and the calyces.
(Grade II Vesicoureteral Reflux, NCI Thesaurus)
