hydroureter

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noun

distension of the ureter with urine, due to an obstruction

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Meanings

nounhydroureter (countable and uncountable, plural hydroureters)

plural hydroureters

  1. countableuncountabledistension of the ureter with urine, due to an obstruction

    Two years later, upon follow-up he was incidentally found to have bilateral hydronephrosis and hydroureter.

    2015, Kurian George et al., “Synchronous bilateral ureteric metastasis from gastric cancer”, in Urology Annals, volume 7, →DOI

Origin

From hydro- + ureter.

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Chicago

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