ureter

American  

[yoo-ree-ter] / yʊˈri tər /

noun

Anatomy, Zoology.

1. a muscular duct or tube conveying the urine from a kidney to the bladder or cloaca.

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ureter British  

/ ˌjʊərɪˈtɛrɪk, jʊˈriːtə /

noun

1. the tube that conveys urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder or cloaca

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ureter Scientific  

/ y-rē′tər,yr′ĭ-tər /

1. Either of two long, narrow ducts that in vertebrates carry urine from each kidney to the urinary bladder.

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Other Word Forms

• postureteral adjective
• postureteric adjective
• ureteral adjective
• ureteric adjective

Etymology

Origin of ureter

First recorded in 1570–80; from New Latin ūrētēr, from Greek ourētḗr, equivalent to ourē- (derivative stem of oureîn) + -tēr noun suffix; urinate )

Example Sentences

We waited anxiously as Montgomery and his colleagues connected the pig kidney's blood vessels and ureter to the decedent's.

From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2023

Forty-five minutes later, a golden drop of urine emerged from the ureter that would normally feed from the kidney to the bladder.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 21, 2023

She had a blockage in her ureter, the tube that connects kidneys to the bladder.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2021

Loin pain hematuria syndrome, Sollinger said in an email, is believed to originate in the ureter where repeated spasms cause pain he likened to “continually passing a kidney stone.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2020

Demonstrate in a dog-fish the pathetic nerve, the opening between pericardium and coelom. the abdominal pores, and the ureter.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)