What's the difference between ureter and ureteritis?
Ureter
Definition:
(n.) The duct which conveys the urine from the kidney to the bladder or cloaca. There are two ureters, one for each kidney.
Example Sentences:
(1) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
(2) Animals in Groups 2 and 3 underwent exposure and manipulation of the right ureter.
(3) During placement of the Fletcher suit one of the ureters is catheterized by a special stent which appears on the X-rays control used for dosimetry.
(4) Regarding ureters read as true positives on indirect study, if that ureter has ever shown reflux at any time, or if it drained a scarred kidney specificity was improved to 97% without changing the sensitivity.
(5) Excretory urogram revealed bilateral hydronephrosis and voiding cystogram revealed VUR on left ureter.
(6) One is the ureteral peristaltic contraction which plays a principal role in urinary bolus transport at low flows; the other is ureteral wall tonus, which plays an important role in the transport of columns of urine by the ureter, which does not coapt its walls, at the higher flow rates.
(7) A 68-year-old female patient was admitted for the examination of duplication of right ureter and right hydronephrosis.
(8) A significant number of ureters with ectopic insertion occur in the single (nonduplex) collecting system.
(9) At operation a patent left umbilical artery was partially obstructing the distal left ureter.
(10) Based on a limited experience we have found that triangular flap ureteroplasty is a worthwhile means of repeat reimplantation of the obstructed ureter and perhaps provides a better alternative than transureteroureterostomy.
(11) The ureter was connected to the epididymis of the testicle.
(12) The urinary bladder of 10 clinically normal dogs was excised and the ureters were implanted into an isolated, vagotomized gastric segment derived from the fundic region of the stomach.
(13) He had undergone pelvic exenteration with the ureterostomy for rectal cancer invading the bladder five months previously and retrograde ureteric catheters were inserted bilaterally into the ureters.
(14) Both methods have a place if diversion is necessary in cases of severe hydronephrosis and decompensated ureters.
(15) Rectal examination showed that both kidneys and ureters were enlarged.
(16) The CGRP also inhibited the NKA- and NPK-induced contractions of the ureter in vitro.
(17) That is, be partial and permanent, produced in fetal or newborn animals, preferably be moderate in degree, the diameter should grow in pace with the growing ureter, and be followed for a long period.
(18) The reservoir is made up using 40 cm of detubulized ileum; on the afferent loop (10 cm long) the right ureter is implanted according to the Camey-Le Duc technique, on the efferent loop (25 cm long) the left ureter is implanted according to the same technique.
(19) We present a rare case of primary amyloidosis involving the ureter and renal pelvis.
(20) To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a small cell carcinoma originating in the ureter in Japan.
Ureteritis
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of the ureter.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2 patients who had received cadaveric renal allograft, ureteral obstruction was detected six and one-half and five and one-half years after transplantation.
(2) Two cases are presented of bilateral ureteral obstruction and uremia due to pressure from nodes involved in disseminated lymphoma.
(3) A case of incomplete peno-scrotal transposition, with a perineal anorectal duplication, vesico-ureteric reflux and thoracic hemivertebrae is presented.
(4) Ureteral injury occurred in only three patients or 0.03 per cent.
(5) CT showed a large ureteral tumor, 73 X 59 mm in size, and two bladder tumors.
(6) They confirm the efficiency of the ureteral catheterisation as therapy of the strictures, especially in the initial stages of the disease.
(7) One is the ureteral peristaltic contraction which plays a principal role in urinary bolus transport at low flows; the other is ureteral wall tonus, which plays an important role in the transport of columns of urine by the ureter, which does not coapt its walls, at the higher flow rates.
(8) Management of obstructive upper ureteral calculi by first flushing the lithiasis to renal cavity and secondary extracorporeal lithotripsy is proposed as a routine guide-line, especially when treatment by ESWL is not immediately available.
(9) Two second generation lithotripters suitable for treatments without invasive forms of the anesthesia, the modified Dornier HM 3- and the Wolf Piezolith 2,200 were compared in terms of efficacy for ureteric calculi.
(10) Whether they affect ureteral motility in vivo or whether they can counteract ureteral spasm associated with ureteral stones have not been established.
(11) Before ureteral occlusion, indomethacin infusion caused a 35 to 40 per cent decrease in bilateral renal blood flow.
(12) Between 1981 and 1985, 20 patients with malignancy-associated ureteral obstruction (MAUO) were given external beam irradiation with a palliative intent.
(13) He had undergone pelvic exenteration with the ureterostomy for rectal cancer invading the bladder five months previously and retrograde ureteric catheters were inserted bilaterally into the ureters.
(14) And even after the disintegration of stone with ESWL, hydronephrosis remained due to ureteral stricture with small stone fragments.
(15) Certain pediatric patients and neonates, especially those with spastic neurogenic bladders or those who have had bilateral ureteral reimplantation, are more susceptible to this form of urinary obstruction.
(16) Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy has significantly altered the management of symptomatic renal and ureteral calculi.
(17) Three further cases were iatrogenic, as a result of the methods employed for antireflux ureteral reimplantation.
(18) There was no evidence of ischaemic necrosis or ureteric stricture formation.
(19) To produce a chronic moderate hydronephrosis in dog, a method of partial ureteral occlusion using a specially designed polypropylene obturator was developed.
(20) This determines that the ureteral orifice enter the urogenital sinus laterally with respect to the Wolffian duct.