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.
A ureter is one of two uterine tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder. Each ureter is about ten to twelve inches long. Urine flows down partly by gravity, but mainly by waves of contractions, which pass several times per minute through the muscle layers of the urethral walls.