Retrovesical

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Behind the urinary bladder not-comparable

    "Two-thirds of local recurrences after surgery occur at the anastomosis (of these 60 % were posterior, 20 % anterior, and 15 % lateral), 17 % in the retrovesical space, 10 % in the bladder neck and 10 % elsewhere [ 6 ]."

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"Two-thirds of local recurrences after surgery occur at the anastomosis (of these 60 % were posterior, 20 % anterior, and 15 % lateral), 17 % in the retrovesical space, 10 % in the bladder neck and 10 % elsewhere [ 6 ]."

Etymology

From retro- + vesical.

Related phrases

urinary bladder

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