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- noun Plural form of
urethra .
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Examples
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Sinks ran, water dripped off fingers, urethras snapped shut while we psychically gabbed with God.
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed Kyria Abrahams 2009
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Plus, there's the added bonus that banning radios doesn't involve handling more urine samples--unless of course riders start secreting them in their urethras.
Burning the Fat: Fueled by Fatuousness BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Plus, there's the added bonus that banning radios doesn't involve handling more urine samples--unless of course riders start secreting them in their urethras.
Archive 2009-09-01 BikeSnobNYC 2009
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I guess little kids get them - short urethras, gross stuff in diapers, etc.
Sick Baby Zombie Mom 2008
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[* These urethras are conduits of the size of a pea, which start from the kidneys, and end at the upper neck of the bladder.]
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The purely liquid portion is absorbed by the stomach, and thrown into circulation; thence it is taken to the veins by the arteries and filtered by urethras, * which pass them as urine, to the bladder.
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The animals put leaves over the ends of their urethras, so that the water will not flow out; but a bird pecks the leaves away, and the monkeys turn to revenge themselves on the bird.
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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Geoffrey St. Hilare reports a case where the penis was double, one being above the other, urine and semen flowing through both urethras.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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Miklucho Maclay learned from the traveller Retsch that about Lake Parapitshurie men's urethras were split, and the girls were spayed: the latter showing two scars in the groin.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Why make this song and dance about urethras when, basically, we are looking at pretty arrangements of postcards?
The Guardian World News Jonathan Jones 2011
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