Anatomy
urinary tract Audio
u·ri·nar·y tract [ yoo r-uh-ner-ee trakt ]
Subclass of:
Genitourinary system
Definitions related to urinary tract:
  • Organs and passageways that participate in the excretion of the urine from the kidneys through the bladder and the urinary meatus.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Part of the body that produces and excretes urine. It consists of the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra.
    Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
    Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
  • The duct which coveys URINE from the pelvis of the KIDNEY through the URETERS, BLADDER, and URETHRA.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Normally, a person has two kidneys. The rest of the urinary tract consists of the following: two ureters (the tubes connecting each kidney to the bladder); the bladder (an expandable muscular sac that holds urine until it is released from the body); the urethra (a tube attached to the bladder that leads to the outside of the body).
    Merck Manuals
    Merck & Co., Inc., 2020
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