Kidney stone disease originating anywhere in the urinary system, including the kidneys and bladder. Nephrolithiasis refers to the presence of such stones in the kidneys. Calyceal calculi are aggregations in either the minor or major calyx, parts of the kidney that pass urine into the ureter (the tube connecting the kidneys to the urinary bladder). The condition is called ureterolithiasis when a calculus is located in the ureter. Stones may also form or pass into the bladder, a condition referred to as bladder stones. Stones less than in diameter pass spontaneously in up to 98% of cases, while those measuring in diameter pass
Bladder Festival Bladder Festival The Bladder Festival or Bladder Feast ("Nakaciuq" "something done with bladders" or "Nakaciuryaraq" "the process of doing something with bladders" in Yup'ik), is an important annual seal hunting harvest renewal ceremony and celebration held each year to honor and appease the souls of seals taken in the hunt during the past season which occurred at the winter solstice by the Yup'ik of western and southwestern Alaska. On the Yup'ik Eskimo shamanism, while the hunter kills the body of the animal, he does not kill the "yua" (spirit or soul), which resides in the animal's bladder ("nakacuk" in Yup'ik)