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ureter

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Muscular duct that propels urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder, or related organs. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ureter http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0090189 ]

Term info

Label

ureter

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, organ_slim, major_organ, human_reference_atlas

RO 0002175

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606

depicted by

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Urinary_system.svg

external definition

The duct of amniotes that carries urine from a metanephric kidney to the urinary bladder. [Bemis_WE, Functional_Anatomy_of_the_Vertebrates:_An_Evolutionary_Perspective, Glossary_G-29, Grande_L, Liem_KF, Third_Edition_(2001)_Orlando_Fla.:_Harcourt_College_Publishers, Walker_WF][VHOG], Anatomical structure consisting of long narrow duct which carries urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder.[AAO]

has related synonym

metanephric duct

has relational adjective

ureteric, ureteral

homology notes

The first embryonic hint of a metanephros is the formation of the metanephric duct that appears as a ureteric diverticulum arising at the base of preexisting mesonephric duct. The ureteric diverticulum grows dorsally into the posterior region of the nephric ridge. Here it enlarges and stimulates the growth of metanephric tubules that come to make up the metanephric kidney. The metanephros becomes the adult kidney of amniotes, and the metanephric duct is usually called the ureter.[well established][VHOG]

id

UBERON:0000056

structure notes

in humans, consists of adventitial, muscular and mucoa layers