uretero-, ureter-
(Greek: urinary canal)
Either of two tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder; the walls of each ureter have three layers—a fibrous outer layer, a muscular middle layer, and an inner memberane and are supplied by blood vessels and nerves.
ureterogram
A radiography of the ureter (either of the long, narrow tubes conveying the urine from the pelvis of each kidney to the urinary bladder) after the injection of a radiopague substance, usually through a ureteral catheter.
ureterography
The radiography of the ureter, after injection of a contrast medium.
ureterolith
ureterolithotomy
The surgical incision and removal of a stone (calculus) lodged in a ureter.
ureterolysis
ureteromegtaly
In anatomy, a disease of the ureter: Jack read on the internet that ureteropathy pertained to an ailment or malfunction of one of the two long narrow passages that transported urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder.
ureteroplasty
ureteroproctostomy
ureteropyelitis
ureteropyelography
Radiographic visualization of the upper urinary tract by the injection of a contrast medium, usually through a ureteral catheter.
ureteropyeloneostomy
ureteropyelonephritis
ureteropyelonephrostomy
ureteropyeloplasty
A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, indirectly, or partially with: "opening, hole, cavity, tract": alveolo-; antro-; anu-; celo-; coelio-; concho-; fenestra-; hernio-; hiat-; meato-; ora-; parieto-; poro-; pyl-, pyle-; pylor-; sphinctero-; splanchn-; stomato-; syringo-; urethro-; vagino-; ventricul-.
