Urethral meatus

System Urinary
SNOMED CT 181424008

Urethral meatus

Definition

External opening or orifice of the urethra through which urine and seminal fluid (in males only) leave the body; in males the meatus presents as a vertical slit normally positioned at the tip of glans penis; in females the meatus is located between the clitoris and the vagina in the vulvular vestibule of the female genitalia[MP].

Also known as external meatus of urethra, external urethral orifice, external urethral ostium, external urinary meatus, meatus urinarius, orificium urethrae externum, orificium urethræ externum, urethral meatus — per UBERON

The Urethral meatus is a part of the Urinary.

Also identified as