the canal that in most mammals conveys urine from the bladder out of the body. In human males it also conveys semen
Derived forms
urethral (uˈrethral)
adjective
Word origin
C17: via Late Latin from Greek ourēthra, from ourein to urinate
Examples of 'urethrae' in a sentence
urethrae
In this group, both urethrae had comparable function, lying side by side, and each draining a separate urinary bladder.
Amr AbdelHamid AbouZeid, Hesham Soilman Safoury, Shaimaa AbdelSattar Mohammad, OsamaEl-Naggar, Ahmed Medhat Zaki, Tarek Ahmed Hassan, Sameh Abdel Hay 2015, 'The double urethra: revisiting the surgical classification', Therapeutic Advances in Urologyhttps://doi.org/10.1177/1756287214561760. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)