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RENAL PELVIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does renal pelvis mean? 

RENAL PELVIS (noun)
  The noun RENAL PELVIS has 1 sense:

1. a structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureterplay

  Familiarity information: RENAL PELVIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RENAL PELVIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

pelvis; renal pelvis

Hypernyms ("renal pelvis" is a kind of...):

bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)

Holonyms ("renal pelvis" is a part of...):

kidney (either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine)


 Context examples 


It may occur in the nose and/or sinuses or in the urinary tract (bladder, renal pelvis, ureter, urethra).

(Inverted papilloma, NCI Dictionary)

A usually congenital abnormality characterized by the partial obstruction of the junction between the renal pelvis and ureter.

(Pelviureteric Junction Obstruction, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-metastasizing neoplasm that arises from the renal pelvis.

(Benign Renal Pelvis Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

It may occur in the bladder or the renal pelvis.

(Papillary Transitional Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Collection of urine in the renal pelvis that results in dilatation of the renal pelvis and calyces.

(Hydronephrosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Collection of urine in the renal pelvis that results in dilatation of the renal pelvis and calyces that is present at birth.

(Congenital Hydronephrosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include cystic nephroma, metanephric adenoma, oncocytoma, and urothelial papilloma of the renal pelvis.

(Benign Renal Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Surgery to make an opening from the outside of the body to the renal pelvis (part of the kidney that collects urine).

(Nephrostomy, NCI Dictionary)

There should be at least 3 relatives with an HNPCC-associated cancer (colorectal cancer, cancer of the endometrium, small bowel, ureter, or renal pelvis); 2.

(Amsterdam Criteria II, NCI Thesaurus)

Vesicoureteral reflux in which there is urine reflux into the ureter and renal pelvis.

(Grade II Vesicoureteral Reflux, NCI Thesaurus)



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