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
When they alight, they seldom make a curve or gyration, but descend in a straight and oblique course.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 by Various
Howe ordered his ships to sail on an oblique course down upon the French line, the two fleets having during the night lain in parallel lines stretching east and west.
From The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Scott, Ernest
After a two-days' halt at Temassinin we had just left the road followed by Flatters, and taken an oblique course to the south.
From Atlantida by Benôit, Pierre
In these circumstances the os calcis was the bone most frequently implicated, and that by tracks taking an oblique course downwards from the leg to the sole.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by Makins, George Henry
