ureter
- n either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder
- Technical name for this trouble is calculus or stone in ureter or ureterolithiasis.
- Mayo Clinic Urologist Ormond Gulp made a small cut into the side of the ureter, removed a ragged stone -in.
- The last time Surgeon Lawler checked on the transplanted kidney was April 1, when he performed a follow-up operation to widen the ureter where it was being narrowed by scar tissue.