What's the difference between urethra and urethritis?

Urethra


Definition:

  • (n.) The canal by which the urine is conducted from the bladder and discharged.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In one of them, who sustained a complete membranous disruption 5 weeks ago, transluminal puncture failed because of the movable proximal urethra.
  • (2) In 36 patients plastic reconstruction of the urinary bladder, sphincter and urethra was performed with local tissues after the Young technic in the G. A. Bairov modification.
  • (3) Manual compression of the bladder elicited urine leakage from the urethra, and the urethral closure pressure was markedly low.
  • (4) The acrosin inhibitors are localized in the mucosa cells of the cauda epididymis, the vas deferens, the seminal vesicles, the urethra and distinct glandular units of the prostate.
  • (5) During unstable detrusor contractions, which even in these healthy women are observed during bladder filling and also during inhibited voidings through the urethra, the contraction is weaker.
  • (6) We concluded that this case was incidentally successful with good regeneration of urethral mucosa of the anterior urethra by grafting a polytetrafluoroethylene tube.
  • (7) All the examinees showed no organic changes in the prostate and urethra.
  • (8) The results are not simply explained by postulating electrically induced closure of the urethra.
  • (9) Spinning top urethra (STU) is a term used to describe a widened posterior urethra seen mainly in girls.
  • (10) The dysfunction is due partly to direct trauma of the bladder and urethra.
  • (11) The two halves of the glans are brought to the midline, thus covering the glanular urethra, and producing a normal appearing glans.
  • (12) The relaxation effects of prazosin and bunazosin on the distal urethra was weaker than on the proximal urethra.
  • (13) The majority were investigated at the bedside by taking films and cultures from the cervix and urethra.
  • (14) After rhizotomy, noradrenaline content in the proximal urethra was significantly increased but there was no change in sensitivity to sympathetic stimulation.
  • (15) Partial resection of anterior urethra including tumor was performed on December 20, 1983.
  • (16) This surgical procedure involves removing the penile urethra and creating a permanent stoma between the skin and pelvic urethra.
  • (17) In 20-35 per cent of short (up to 05 cm) urethral stenosis or cicatricial obliterations of urethra it was found advisable to start the treatment with nonoperative technique.
  • (18) The sphincter urethrae muscle is located inside the sling of the puborectalis muscle in both sexes, but no muscle fibres connect them to one another.
  • (19) The complication rate was astonishingly low during IUSC: being only 4.3% (2 male patients, one with stricture of the urethra and epididymitis, one with autonomous dysreflexia with bladder overdistension).
  • (20) The results appear to offer pharmacological evidence for the recently evolving intricate innervation pattern of the urethra including its distal portion, where the alpha-adrenergic system is believed to be important.

Urethritis


Definition:

  • (n.) Inflammation of the urethra.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A total of 104 evaluable patients 20-90 years old treated by direct vision internal urethrotomy a.m. Sachse for urethral strictures reported retrospectively via a questionnaire their sexual potency before and after internal urethrotomy.
  • (2) From the treatment group 23 patients could be assessed: 2 had discontinued clean intermittent self-catheterization due to urethral hemorrhage, 2 died during the observation period and 1 was lost to followup.
  • (3) Among the agents triggering such an infection Chlamydia (30.9% of the cases of non-gonorrhoic urethritis), as well as mycoplasma, ureaplasma, anaerobic bacteria and herpes simplex viruses have gained particular significance.
  • (4) It is suggested that contractile responses to electrical stimulation in isolated sheep urethral smooth muscle are mediated by the sympathetic nervous system, mainly through release of noradrenaline stimulating postjunctional alpha 1-adrenoceptors.
  • (5) Fifteen SCI patients underwent a total of 224 ultrasonic bladder volume determinations and 57 urethral catheterizations.
  • (6) Since gentamicin and kanamycin have proved to be effective, they are now recommended for the treatment of gonococcal urethritis in Zambia.
  • (7) Two hundred fifty-one cervical and 209 male urethral specimens from three Richmond health clinics were read by direct immunofluorescence staining and compared with cell culture technics using iodine staining.
  • (8) Cats with urethral obstruction due to naturally occurring disease, feline urological syndrome (FUS), had markedly lower urine Mg concentrations than cats fed high Mg diets.
  • (9) Manual compression of the bladder elicited urine leakage from the urethra, and the urethral closure pressure was markedly low.
  • (10) We present our experience with the self-expanding urethral endoprosthesis Wallstent for the treatment of recurrent posterior urethral strictures.
  • (11) Stress continence depends upon three factors: proximal urethral support, vesical neck closure, and urethral contractility.
  • (12) It is important to pay attention to the outcome of this study in (postgraduate) education for general practitioners, as they treat the vast majority of urethritis patients.
  • (13) Lack of circumcision, past history of GUD and urethritis were significantly associated with HIV seroconversion.
  • (14) We concluded that this case was incidentally successful with good regeneration of urethral mucosa of the anterior urethra by grafting a polytetrafluoroethylene tube.
  • (15) The patient had associated congenital abnormalities of urethral stricture, hypoplastic thumb, and absent radial pulse.
  • (16) A search of the medical records from 1940 to 1975 at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco and Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley has revealed only 3 cases of carcinoma within a urethral diverticulum.
  • (17) Major small operations and examinations for outpatients were transperineal prostatic needle biopsies, transurethral urethral and bladder mucosal biopsies, phimotomy, transurethral intravesical surgery and percutaneous renal cyst puncture.
  • (18) Calcium or uric acid urethral lithiasis was the main cause of obstruction in the benign group.
  • (19) Thirty-four children, ten of them coming from another Surgical Center, underwent repair for urethral fistula after hypospadias reconstructive surgery, over a period of three years (1985-1987).
  • (20) Euthanasia was done before the end of the 10-day experimental period if the cats had two bouts of urethral obstruction or if the cats became uremic for causes unrelated to urethral obstruction.

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