How to Use urethra in a Sentence

urethra

noun
Definition of urethranext
  • The urethra is the tube that carries urine outside of your body.
    — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The urethra is a short tube that carries urine from the lower part of the bladder to the outside of the body.
    — Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 1 July 2024
  • The man also didn't say how or why the tweezers wound up in his urethra.
    — Laura Dorwart, Health.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The vas deferens are a pair of hardy tubes that pump sperm from the testes into the urethra.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2022
  • This originates in your urethra, the tube that allows urine to pass out of the body.
    — Alice Oglethorpe, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2020
  • This surgery cuts the vas deferens, which are tubes that carry sperm from the testes to the urethra.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health, 19 June 2024
  • Your urethra is that tube that runs from your bladder to where pee comes out of your body.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Wiping back to front may bring bacteria from the anal area to the urethra.
    — Joni Sweet, Health, 1 June 2024
  • The urethra: This is the tunnel through which urine and semen travel.
    — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 29 Dec. 2018
  • The opening through which urine passes, the urethra, is shorter than for a man.
    — Susan Degrane, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The bacteria can come from the skin or rectum and enter the urethra.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 25 June 2024
  • Certain nerves and blood vessels have to be intact, along with the urethra, the tube that carries urine out of the body.
    — Author: Denise Grady, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Apr. 2018
  • These stones can cause discomfort, pain, and even blockage of the urethra.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
  • So that your urine can be released out of your body, the sphincter muscles around the urethra relax.
    — Jessica Migala, Health.com, 22 Feb. 2022
  • That's when swelling, infection, or injury produces a scar that blocks or slows the flow of urine in the urethra, which is the tube that lets urine leave the body.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The lower urinary tract consists of your bladder and urethra—the tube through which urine exits the body.
    — Samantha Lauriello, Health, 25 Aug. 2023
  • In women, the urethra — the gateway to the urinary tract — is in proximity to the rectum.
    — Matt Richtel, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2019
  • The consumed poultry winds up in a person’s gut and can get transferred through fecal residue to the urethra.
    — Matt Richtel, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2019
  • This surface would someday form his new urethra, but first this tissue graft had to heal.
    — New York Times, 10 May 2022
  • Part of a transurethral resection involves inserting a scope — a tube with a camera at the end — through the urethra.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The bladder connects to the kidney with a kind of valve, and to the urethra, requiring a muscle to contract and vacate urine.
    — Steve Volk, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2015
  • In older women, the lining of the urethra may become thinned due to loss of estrogen.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 19 July 2021
  • In men, there is usually a more clear pathologic cause to the infection beyond just the length of the urethra.
    — Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Your best course of action is to do as your urethra naturally wants to do when peeing, and chill out for a sec.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 25 June 2024
  • All this time, sphincter muscles in the pelvic floor that surround the urethra are keeping your bladder from leaking all over the place.
    — Kasandra Brabaw, Health.com, 25 Aug. 2020
  • This is a blockage in the duct that supplies sperm to the urethra during ejaculation.
    — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 1 June 2023
  • Weak pelvic floor muscles, which normally keep the bladder and urethra (the tube that carries urine out of your body) closed, are the leading cause.
    — Jamin Brahmbhatt, Verywell Health, 12 Aug. 2024
  • This stimulation makes the Skene's gland fill with fluid, which is then expressed through the urethra.
    — Erika W. Smith, refinery29.com, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The main cause of a UTI is when bacteria makes its way into your urinary tract, through your urethra (aka, the tube that allows urine to pass out of your body).
    — Joni Sweet, Health.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Cystoscopy: This direct method of detection involves inserting a narrow scope—called a cystoscope—into your urethra (the tube through which urine exits the body) to examine the inside of your bladder.
    — James Myhre & Dennis Sifris, Md, Verywell Health, 3 Sep. 2024

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