oblique course

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Children born lacking this oblique course of the ureter through the bladder wall are susceptible to “vesicoureteral reflux,” which dramatically increases their risk of serious UTI.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The oblique course of the projectile, from its very obliquity, gave Michel Ardan some hopes of striking the lunar disc at some point or other.

From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Verne, Jules

And at this moment, I conceive it to be finally torn directly from its oblique course, by the gravitational pull of the immense star.—Ed.

From The House on the Borderland by Hodgson, William Hope

There he had made arrangements with his people that the ivory from Latooka station, 100 miles east of Gondokoro, should avoid my head-quarters, and be conveyed by an oblique course to the Bohr.

From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

In its oblique course it struck only a part of the fleet, and the damage, though computed at L. 20,000 sterling, was by no means so great as might have been expected.

From An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 by Hewatt, Alexander