† proturetern. [after German Protureter ( Haeckel Anthropogenie (1874) 668)] Anatomy and ZoologyObsoleterare the excretory duct of an embryonic kidney.
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1879 tr. E. Haeckel Evol. Man II. 406 We find a long tube, the primitive kidney duct (protureter..), on each side.