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
Count de Lesseps' plan differed from all previous ones, for he purposed cutting directly through the isthmus to Suez, rather than to follow an oblique course and to connect the canal with the Nile.
From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam
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 Jules Verne
With great presence of mind he put forth all his strength and dexterity to slowly take an oblique course, knowing well that there was no hope for him if the current took him crosswise.
From File No. 113 by Émile Gaboriau
