URACHUS


Meaning of URACHUS in English

-kəs noun

( -es )

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek ourachos, from our- ur- (I) + -achos (from echein to hold) — more at scheme

: a cord of fibrous tissue extending from the bladder to the umbilicus and constituting the functionless remnant of a part of the duct of the allantois of the embryo

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