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.
Classification: There are three physiologic narrowing of the ureter where stones may obstruct. The first narrowing of the ureter is the location where the renal pelvis of the kidney meets the ureter or the uretero-pelvic junction (UPJ).The next level of narrowing is where the ureter crosses the iliac vessels.he third ureteral narrowing exist where the intramural portion of the ureter meets the bladder known as the ureteral vesico-junction, or UVJ, which measures approximately 1 - 5 mm. in size.