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ureteral orifice

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The slit-like opening of either ureter into the bladder; normally, the two ureteral orifices are placed at the posterolateral angles of the urinary bladder trigone while the internal urethral orifice is placed at its anteroinferior angle (apex); wide gaping usually indicates vesicoureteral reflux. [ MP:0011783 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orifice_of_ureter ]

Synonyms: Mercier's bar ureteric orifice ureteric ostium ureteral opening ostium ureteris orificium ureteris orifice of ureter ureteral meatus ureterovesical orifice

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

latin term
ostium ureteris [ FMA:TA MP:0011783 ]

latin term
orificium ureteris [ MP:0011783 ]

editor note

TODO - add relationship to junction

id

UBERON:0012303

present in taxon

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