(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.
Urine
Definition:
(n.) In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion.
(v. i.) To urinate.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
(2) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
(3) One thing seems to be noteworthy in their opinion: the bacterial resistance of the germs isolated from the urine is bigger than the one of the germs isolated from the respiratory apparatus.
(4) This difference is probably secondary to the different rates of delivery of furosemide into urine.
(5) No associations were found between sex, body-weight, smoking habits, age, urine volume or urine pH and the O-demethylation of codeine.
(6) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
(7) Zinc in plasma and urine and serum albumin and alpha 2-macroglobulin were measured in 48 patients with burns.
(8) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(9) A sensitive, selective and easy to use high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of cicletanide, a new diuretic, in plasma, red blood cells, urine and saliva is described.
(10) Investigations on the influence of the diuresis effect on the results of quantitative estrogen and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) determination revealed that the estrogen values increase with the 24-hour amount of urine.
(11) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
(12) We recommend analysing the urine for porphyrins in HIV-positive patients who have chronic photosensitivity of the skin.
(13) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(14) Urine tests in six patients with other kidney diseases and with uraemia and in seven healthy persons did not show this substance.
(15) The antigenic composition of an extract of rat dust, as a source of aeroallergens for rat-sensitive individuals, has been investigated and compared to the antigenic composition of rat saliva and urine.
(16) There is a considerably larger variability of the mercury levels in urine than in blood.
(17) Metabolites of nafiverine in blood, bile, and urine were determined quantitatively.
(18) Cost-effective immunoassays for the detection of amphetamines, benzodiazepines, and methadone in urine have been developed using Syva EMIT reagents and a Cobas Bio centrifugal analyser.
(19) Sulphuric acid fluorescence is used for quantitation and specificity is achieved by the addition of tritiated oestrone to the urine hydrolysate.
(20) Their levels in urine are a useful indicator of the integrity of membrane barriers of the kidney glomerular capillary wall.