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I know what I may ask might be medical professionaly but I’m not really sure if it is and I just need help knowing something, are urethras supposed to look flat on the outside? What are they supposed to look like. I have no reference for a normal and I feel like diagrams don’t help because they’re drawn. Also I’m 14 female and I would try to ask to go to a gyno but I’m yet to find the will/valid reason to ask. So if someone could just shed a bit of light, I could determine if I need to see one or not. If this falls under “asking for medical advice” I’m sorry

Hi there, Bromine, welcome to the boards.

It's actually really hard to even see the urethral opening, it's so small. (The urethra is a tube inside the body: we can't see it from the outside at all.) I do think that describing it as usually flat is accurate.

There's an image here made for medical reference that shows the vulva -- including the urethral opening -- both in illustrated diagram and a photo. I would say that this is a good general depiction of what it looks like in people. You'll struggle to even really see it, because it is just the tiniest of openings. https://bio.libretexts.org/Courses/West ... xternal%29

Just for the record, you can make appointments with many OB/GYNs that are educational appointments: where the intended purpose is to do things like this, to answer your questions about your own body. That's just as valid a reason to go as having an infection or looking into contraception.