yəˈrē]d.ə(r), yüˈrē], ]tə- also ˈyu̇rə] or ˈyürə] noun
( -s )
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek ourētēr, from ourein to urinate — more at urine
: either of the paired ducts that carry away urine from a kidney to the bladder or cloaca, that in man are slender membranous epithelium-lined flat tubes about sixteen inches long which open above into the pelvis of a kidney and below into the back part of the same side of the bladder at a very oblique angle and in other mammals except monotremes open into the bladder and in lower vertebrates into the cloaca, and that in the lower vertebrates are mesonephric ducts and often serve also as sperm ducts in the male
• ure·ter·al yəˈrēd.ərəl, yüˈr-, -ētə- or ure·ter·ic |yu̇rə|terik, |yür-, -erēk; yəˈrēd.ərik, yüˈr-, -ētə-\ adjective