URETER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ureter mean? 

• URETER (noun)
  The noun URETER has 1 sense:

1. either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder

  Familiarity information: URETER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• URETER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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 

It results in the formation of stones in the kidney, ureter, and urinary bladder.

(Cystinuria, NCI Thesaurus)

The ureter connecting the left kidney to the bladder.

(Left Ureter, NCI Thesaurus)

Dilatation of the ureter caused by obstruction of urine flow.

(Hydroureter, NCI Thesaurus)

Surgery to remove a kidney and its ureter.

(Nephroureterectomy, NCI Dictionary)

A malignant tumor that has spread to the ureter from another anatomic site. —2003

(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Ureter, NCI Thesaurus)

An abnormality of the kidney, ureter, bladder, or urethra that is present at birth.

(Congenital Abnormality of the Urinary System, NCI Thesaurus)

An x-ray image of the kidneys, ureters, and bladder.

(Intravenous pyelogram, NCI Dictionary)

Abnormal growth of the cells of the ureter (upper urinary tract) without malignant characteristics.

(Benign Ureter Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Ureter tumors 20% in females, 6% in males.

(BN, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Abnormal malignant growth of cells in the ureter (upper urinary tract)that has progressed to involve other areas of the body.

(Metastatic Neoplasm of the Ureter, NCI Thesaurus)