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urethral
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(Greek: urethra, a slitlike tube conveying urine from the internal urethral orifice of the bladder)
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female urethral opening
The external opening of the transport tube that leads from the bladder to discharge urine outside the body in a female.

The urethra in a female is shorter than the urethra in the male.

The meatus (opening) of the female urethra is below the clitoris and just above the opening of the vagina.

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urethral caruncle
1. A small, polyploid, red growth on the mucous membrane of the female urinary meatus (natural passage or canal), sometimes causing difficulty in urination.
2. A small, fleshy, sometimes painful protrusion of the mucous membrane at the meatus (canal) of the female urethra.

It may be telangiectatic (dilation of preexisting blood vessels), papillomatous (blood vessels), or composed of granulation tissue.

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