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- noun Plural form of
ureter .
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Examples
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The ureters are the tubes that connect the kidneys to the bladder.
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The ureters are the two tubes which convey the urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder.
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The urine is first secreted or collected in them, and excreted or thrown out, through the two canals called ureters, into the bladder.
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Those abnormalities include disease of the prostate males only, cancer of the urethra or bladder and ectopic ureters, which is when. the tubular structures, or the ureters, that carry urine from each kidney to the bladder are in abnormal positions.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Urine normally flows in one direction - down from the kidneys, through tubes called ureters, to the bladder.
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An IVP, or intravenous pyleogram, will evaluate your child's kidneys, ureters and bladder.
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The contrast agent will highlight the kidneys and show how they drain down the ureters into the bladder.
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Each has a separate ureter, meaning that she has four kidneys and four ureters. via Arbroath
Girl Grows Two New Kidneys After Old Ones Fail | Impact Lab 2010
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They gave me a prescription for something that is supposed to dilate the ureters, but I'm broke until Monday.
So, My Day... archmage 2009
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Cutting both ureters is considered a rare and serious surgical complication because it can cause the kidneys to shut down.
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