Anatomy
urinary tract

u·ri·nar·y tract [ yoo r-uh-ner-ee trakt ]
Subclass of:
Genitourinary system
Definitions related to urinary tract:
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Organs and passageways that participate in the excretion of the urine from the kidneys through the bladder and the urinary meatus.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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Part of the body that produces and excretes urine. It consists of the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra.Harvard Dictionary of Health TermsHarvard Medical Publishing, 2011
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The duct which coveys URINE from the pelvis of the KIDNEY through the URETERS, BLADDER, and URETHRA.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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Normally, a person has two kidneys. The rest of the urinary tract consists of the following: two ureters (the tubes connecting each kidney to the bladder); the bladder (an expandable muscular sac that holds urine until it is released from the body); the urethra (a tube attached to the bladder that leads to the outside of the body).Merck & Co., Inc., 2020
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