Kidney Synonyms

kĭdnē
A part of an organism having a specialized use
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. excretory organ
  2. urinary organ
  3. abdominal gland
Either of a pair of organs that are located in the rear of the abdominal cavity in vertebrates. The kidneys regulate fluid balance in the body and filter out wastes from the blood in the form of urine. The functional unit of the kidney is the nephron. Wastes filtered from the blood by the nephrons drain into the ureters, muscular tubes that connect each kidney to the bladder.
Synonyms:
  1. glomerulonephritis
  2. nephrosis
  3. uremia
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Words Related to Kidney

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Kidney Sentence Examples

  • The reniform masses are known as kidney ore.

  • Sow a few kidney beans for an early forced crop. Expel damp, and assist the ripening of late grapes and peaches with fires during the day.

  • The kidney has similar relations in both species, and is identical with the organ spoken of by many authors as the triangular gland.

  • Kidney haemorrhage and albuminuria is a constant symptom.

  • When the pericardium is cut open from above in an animal otherwise entire, the anterior face of the kidney is seen forming the posterior wall of the pericardial chamber; on the deep edge of this face, a little to the left of the attachment of the auricle to the floor of the pericardium, is seen a depression; this depression contains the opening from the pericardium into the kidney.

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