renal pelvis

1. 1.

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

   Synonymspelvis

   Broadercavity

   Part ofkidney

Questions about renal pelvis

What does renal pelvis mean?

renal pelvis means "a structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter".

What is another word for renal pelvis?

Close synonyms include pelvis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is renal pelvis a common word?

renal pelvis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.