Ureterovesical

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. The anatomical region serves as the point of passage for urine from the ureters to the bladder
2. This term describes the junction within the urinary system where urine is discharged from the ureters into the bladder
3. Pertaining to the connection point where the ureter empties urine into the urinary bladder

Etymology: "Ureterovesical" is a technical compound built from two existing medical building blocks: "uretero-", from "ureter" (the tube carrying urine from kidney to bladder), and "vesical", from Latin "vesica", meaning "bladder" or "bladder-like sac". Joined together, the combined form describes whatever relates to both the ureter and the bladder at once. The word is a modern coinage of anatomical and medical writing rather than an ancient term. Its parts are old, but the joined form was assembled to name one precise location, the point where the ureter opens into the bladder wall. Because the pieces are classical, the word reads as Latin or Greek to a newcomer, even though it was put together in a clinical vocabulary.