But when a horse develops laminitis, an inflamation of the tissue that bonds the horse's bone to the inner wall of the hoof, the hoof doesn't work properly, the animal is in pain and its health can be severely compromised. No lesser horse than the great Secretariat, the 1973 Triple Crown winner, was felled by laminitis.
â¢ URETER (noun) The noun URETER has 1 sense: 1. either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder. Familiarity information: URETER used as a noun is very rare.
Ureters are the muscular tubes that lead from each of the kidneys to the urinary bladder. Each ureter is typically quite small. In an average adult, the ureters are about 3 millimeters (0.12 inches) in diameter. They may also be up to 30 millimeters (1.18 inches) long.