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Definition: Ureter |
UreterNoun1. Either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ureter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references) |
Etymology: Ureter \U*re"ter\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression. See Urine.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | One of a pair of thick-walled tubes that transports urine from the kidney pelvis to the bladder. (references) |
Medicine | The duct conveying urine from the kidney to the bladder. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Ureter |
| English words defined with "ureter": hydronephrosis ♦ pelvis, Pelvis of the kidney ♦ renal colic, renal pelvis ♦ Segmental duct ♦ ureteritis, ureterocele, ureterorenal reflux, ureterostenosis ♦ vesicoureteral reflux. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ureter": hydroureter ♦ Kidney Pelvis ♦ Nephrostomy, Percutaneous ♦ transitional cell carcinoma ♦ Ureteral Neoplasms, Ureteroscopes, Ureteroscopy. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ureter": Protureter ♦ ureteritis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ureter" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (ureter), Serbo-Croatian (ureter), Turkish (ureter). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Line drawing showing the urinary tract: kidneys, ureter, bladder, urethra and prostate of a man. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Kidney stones in kidney, ureter, and bladder. (references) | |
Then waste and extra fluid go out into the urine through the ureter. (references) | ||
The ureter gets longer as the child grows, which improves the function of the valve. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ureter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Ureter" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
ureter | 50 | stone ureter | 3 |
ureter stent | 14 | surgery ureter | 3 |
ureter cancer | 9 | arterial compression ureter | 3 |
compression ureter | 5 | feto obstruccion ureter | 3 |
malformation ureter | 4 | artery by obstruction ureter | 3 |
disease ureter | 4 | blocked ureter | 2 |
blockage ureter | 4 | ureter obstruction | 2 |
ectopic ureter | 4 | double ureter | 2 |
artery by compressed ureter | 3 | function ureter | 2 |
reimplantation ureter | 3 | dog ectopic ureter | 2 |
artery pressing ureter | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "ureter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | uretër (urethra). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الحالب قناة بالإنسان. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | уретер. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "尿管. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | moèovod (urethra). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ureter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pelvis renalis (pelvis of the ureter, renal pelvis), nierbekken (pelvis of the kidney, pelvis of the ureter, renal pelvis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | uretère. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ureter, Harnleiter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ουρητήρ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | húgyvezeték. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | saluran kencing. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | uretere. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 輸尿管 , 尿管 (urinary duct). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | にょうか" (court lady, urinary duct), ゆにょうか". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "관. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eteruray uréter. (various references) мочеточник. (various references) ureter. (various references) uréter. (various references) urinledare. (various references) ureter, sidiksağan, idrar yolu (urethra). (various references) сечовід. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ureter": ureteral, ureteric, ureters. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ureter" (pronounced 'U*re"ter'): Abutter, Acater, Acquitter, Adelaster, Admitter, Adulter, Aflutter, Aglitter, Alabaster, Allotter, Amylobacter, Antitrochanter, Apporter, Atter, Auntter, Auster, Balter, Baxter, Beflatter, Begetter, Bemaster, Beplaster, Bescatter, Besetter, Bespatter, Bewinter, Blatter, Blotter, Boroughmaster, Boulter, Bunter, Buster, Canaster, Cauter, Cheirepter, Chitter, Chowter, Cinter, Circumcenter, Climacter, Clotter, Clyster, Coleopter, Colter, Committer, Complotter, Concertmeister, Coniroster, Coster, Crater. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-r-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: truer. | |
-2 letters: rete, ruer, tree, true. | |
-3 letters: ere, err, ree, ret, rue, rut, tee. | |
-4 letters: er, et, re, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-r-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: refuter, reroute, reutter, ureters, utterer. | |
+2 letters: aperture, austerer, bourtree, creature, extruder, gesturer, kreutzer, lecturer, murrelet, mutterer, overture, putterer, rebutter, refuters, renature, requiter, rerouted, reroutes, returned, returnee, returner, reuniter, reutters, treasure, tressure, trouvere, truebred, turreted, ureteral, ureteric, urethrae, utterers, venturer. | |
+3 letters: adulterer, apertures, blusterer, bourtrees, butterier, coverture, creatures, decurrent, departure, durometer, enrapture, excurrent, extruders, flutterer, fruiterer, furthered, furtherer, gesturers, kreutzers, lecturers, mercurate, murrelets, murthered, mutterers, outerwear, overtured, overtures, perturbed, poulterer, prelature, premature, prereturn, putterers, quartered, rebutters, recapture, recounter, recruited, recruiter, recurrent, regretful, renatured, renatures, requester, requestor, requiters, resoluter, resurgent, resurrect, retexture, retoucher, retrousse, returnees, returners, reuniters, reuttered, saunterer, sputterer, stutterer, subverter, surfeiter, thunderer, treasured, treasurer, treasures, tressures, trouveres, trumpeter, turneries, underrate, venturers. | |
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