The normal caliber of the adult female urethra.  .
The mean urethral caliber of 250 women undergoing cystoscopy to stage cancer of the cervix was 22F, as measured by the bougie à boule. A study of correlations between normal urethral caliber and age, weight, height, gravidity and parity of patients revealed a significant correlation with weight only.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012016:Reference Values; D014521:Urethra / Q000033:anatomy & histology*