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

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

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

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