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.
In human anatomy, the ureters are tubes made of smooth muscle fibers that propel urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder. In the adult, the ureters are usually 25â30 cm (10â12 in) long and ~3â4 mm in diameter. Histologically, the ureter contains transitional epithelium and an additional smooth muscle layer in the more distal one-third to assist with peristalsis.