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Definition: Urethral |
UrethralAdjective1. Of or relating to the urethra. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "urethral" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | Concerning the urethra. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Urethral |
| English words defined with "urethral": bladder sphincter ♦ micturition reflex, musculus sphincter vesicae ♦ Urethrotome, Urethrotomy, urinary hesitancy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "urethral": Trichomonas vaginalis ♦ Urinary Catheterization. (references) |
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 | This patient has a primary syphilitic chancre located in the urethral meatus. A chancre is a primary skin lesion of syphilis which begins at the site of infection after an interval of 10-30 days as a papule or red ulcerated skin lesion. Credit: CDC. |  | Photomicrograph of a urethral exudate from a male with urethritis, indicating gram-negative N. gonorrhoeae intracellular diplococci. Credit: CDC. |
 | This photomicrograph of N. gonorrhoeae, a gonococcus, is from a urethral discharge specimen in a case of acute gonorrhoeae. Gonorrhea is second only to chlamydial infections in the number of cases reported to the CDC. Credit: CDC. |  | A Gram-stained urethral exudate from a male with urethritis. Note the pleomorphic Gram-negative extracellular organisms, as well as intracellular diplococci. This culture is positive for Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Credit: CDC. |
 | [Cystoscopy: Nitze's cystoscope showing probe channel, urethral probe, and bulb illumination]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Certain drugs can tighten or strengthen urethral and pelvic floor muscles. (references) | |
If not, you may be able to hold a warm, damp washcloth over the urethral opening. (references) | ||
This will stabilize overactive muscles and stimulate contraction of urethral muscles. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Urethral" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Urethral" is used about 9 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "urethral": urethral fever ♦ Urethral Neoplasms ♦ urethral obstruction ♦ urethral orifice ♦ urethral sphincter. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "urethral"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 尿" (urethra). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | urethral. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | urethrastrictuur (urethral stricture), urethradivertikel (urethral diverticulum), urethradraden (urethral threads), urethrapoliep (urethral polyp), urethrastenose (urethral stenosis), urethratumor (ureteral cancer, urethral tumour), urethritis herpetica (urethral herpes), urethrokèle (urethral cyst, urethral diverticulum, urethrocele), urinefilamenten (urethral threads), uretrale kleppen (urethral valves), uretrorragie (urethral hemorrhage), urinebuisbloeding (urethral hemorrhage), urinebuisslagader (urethral artery), urethrorrhagia (urethral hemorrhage), urethra-sondage (urethral swab), arteria urethralis (urethral artery), crista urethralis (seminal crest, urethral crest, urethral crest of female urethra, urethral crest of male urethra), fissura urethrae (urethral fissure), herpes urethralis (urethral herpes), papilla urethralis (urethral papilla), sonde voor onderzoek van urinewegen (urethral sound), valvulae urethrales (urethral valves), anaesthesia urethralis (urethral anesthesia), vernauwing van de ureter (ureteral stricture, urethral stricture), strictura urethralis (urethral stricture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | virtsaputken ahtautuminen (urethral stricture), virtsaputken ahtauma (urethral stricture), näytteen otto virtsaputkesta (urethral swab). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | urétral. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Harnröhren (urethras). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ουρήθρασ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שפכתי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | húgycső-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | uretrale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ethraluray uretrorragia (urethral hemorrhage), uretrocele (urethral cyst, urethrocele), herpes uretral (urethral herpes), artéria uretral (urethral artery), crista uretral (seminal crest, urethral crest, urethral crest of female urethra, urethral crest of male urethra), crista uretral da uretra feminina (urethral crest, urethral crest of female urethra), crista uretral da uretra masculina (urethral crest, urethral crest of male urethra), divertículo da uretra (urethral diverticulum), estenose uretral (urethral stenosis), filamentos urinários (urethral threads), fissura uretral (urethral fissure), anestesia uretral (urethral anesthesia), hemorragia uretral (urethral hemorrhage), válvulas uretrais (urethral valves), infiltração amilóide uretral (urethral amyloid), pólipo uretral (urethral polyp), papila uretral (urethral papilla), quisto uretral (urethral cyst, urethrocele), sonda uretral (urethral sound), trombose das veias uretrais (thrombosis of urethral veins), tumor uretral (urethral tumour), granuloma uretral (urethral granuloma). (various references) uretral. (various references) уретральный. (various references) uretrorragia (urethral hemorrhage), uretrocele (urethral cyst, urethrocele), granuloma uretral (urethral granuloma), anestesia uretral (urethral anesthesia), arteria uretral (urethral artery), cresta uretral femenina (urethral crest, urethral crest of female urethra), cresta uretral masculina (urethral crest, urethral crest of male urethra), divertículo de la uretra (urethral diverticulum), estenosis uretral (urethral stenosis), estrechamiento de la luz uretral (urethral stricture), estrechez uretral (urethral stricture), amiloide uretral (urethral amyloid), fisura uretral (urethral fissure), válvulas de la uretra (urethral valves), herpes uretral (urethral herpes), pólipo uretral (urethral polyp), papila uretral (urethral papilla), sonda uretral (ureteral probe, urethral sound), toma uretral (urethral swab), trombosis de las venas uretrales (thrombosis of urethral veins), tumor uretral (urethral tumour), filamentos urinarios (urethral threads). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Urethral" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: urethal, urethrae, urethro. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "urethral" (pronounced 'U*re"thral'): Suburethral. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-l-r-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: urethra. | |
-2 letters: haleru, halter, hauler, hurler, hurter, hurtle, lather, rather, retral, thaler. | |
-3 letters: alert, alter, artel, earth, haler, hater, haute, heart, later, lathe, lehua, lurer, lutea, ratel, rater, rathe, ruler, rural, taler, tarre, terra, thurl, truer, ultra, urare, urate, ureal. | |
-4 letters: earl, eath, haet, hale, halt, hare, harl, hart, hate, haul, haut, heal, hear. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-l-r-r-t-u" | |
+3 letters: eurythermal, purpleheart, slaughterer. | |
+4 letters: characterful, chartularies, preslaughter, purplehearts, slaughterers, unrhetorical. | |
+5 letters: architectural, thermonuclear, treacherously. | |
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