urethra

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Located inside the vagina, the urethra is a tube that's roughly two inches long, running from the bladder to the urethral opening on her vaginal wall.

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  1. noun The canal through which urine is discharged from the bladder in most mammals and through which semen is discharged in the male.

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  1. Late Latin ūrēthra, from Greek ourēthra, from ourein, to urinate.

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  1. = French urèthre = Spanish uretra = Portuguese urethra = Italian uretra, from Latin urethra, from Greek οὐρήθρα, the passage for urine, from οὐρεῑν, urinate, from οὐρον, urine: see urine.
 

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