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kidney
has definitions from the fields of anatomy,zoology
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[ noun ] (anatomy,zoology) either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine; urine passes out of the kidney through ureters to the bladder
Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)She had - he informed her - kidney trouble , liver trouble , and a severe female disorder . He then sold her minerals to cure her kidney ailment , a can of sage `` to make her look_like a girl again '' , and an application of plain mud to take her wrinkles away . (J. W. C. Hagstrom et al., "Debilitating muscular...)The kidneys were pale and weighed right , 110 gm. , and left , 230 gm. . On the surface of the right kidney there were also 2 yellow , firm , friable raised areas measuring up_to 2 cm. in diameter . Microscopically , both kidneys showed many small cortical scars in which there was glomerular and interstitial fibrosis , tubular atrophy , and an infiltration of lymphocytes and plasma cells . |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 18626
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