Definitions for ureters

ureters u·re·ter

Spelling: [yoo-ree-ter]
IPA: /yʊˈri tər/

Ureters is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in ureters (eerrstu).

Definitions for ureters

noun

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

Origin of ureters

1570-80; New Latin Greek ourētḗr, equivalent to ourē- (verbid stem of oureîn to urinate) + -tēr noun suffix

Examples for ureters

The escape from the bladder and through the ureters may be obstructed by compression, as already mentioned.

From them a pair of ducts, the ureters, can be traced down to a median thin-walled muscular sac, the bladder.

The ureters open into the fundus of the bladder as in some Rodents.

The ureters lead from the kidneys to the urinary bladder, which in its form and relations is quite distinctive of the Mammalia.

From the capsules, the excretion passes through the tubules into the pelvis, and on through the ureters to the bladder.

The kidneys are rounder, and the ureters are also different from man.

If both the ureters are similarly blocked, the animal will die of uremic poisoning.

Openings of ureters in Wolffian duct in the female (fig. 3).

The ureters (fig. 407, 3) open higher up than the other ducts into the stalk of the allantois which dilates to form the bladder .

Occasionally the two kidneys are fused end to end, with two ureters.

Word Value for ureters
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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