URETHRA (urethrae)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does urethra mean? 

• URETHRA (noun)
  The noun URETHRA has 1 sense:

1. duct through which urine is discharged in most mammals and which serves as the male genital duct

  Familiarity information: URETHRA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• URETHRA (noun)

Meaning:

Duct through which urine is discharged in most mammals and which serves as the male genital duct

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("urethra" is a kind of...):

canal; channel; duct; epithelial duct (a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance)

Meronyms (parts of "urethra"):

external orifice; urethral orifice (the orifice through which urine is discharged)

musculus sphincter urethrae; urethral sphincter (a striated sphincter muscle that constricts the urethra)

Holonyms ("urethra" is a part of...):

apparatus urogenitalis; genitourinary apparatus; genitourinary system; systema urogenitale; urinary apparatus; urinary system; urogenital apparatus; urogenital system (the system that includes all organs involved in reproduction and in the formation and voidance of urine)

urinary tract (the organs and tubes involved in the production and excretion of urine)

vulva (external parts of the female genitalia)

member; penis; phallus (the male organ of copulation ('member' is a euphemism))