Nephron

Definition: Nephron

Nephron

Noun

1. Any of the small tubules that are the excretory units of the vertebrate kidney.

Specialty Definitions: Nephron

Domain	Definitions
Health	A tiny part of the kidneys. Each kidney is made up of about 1 million nephrons, which are the working units of the kidneys, removing wastes and extra fluids from the blood. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Nephron

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A nephron is the basic structural and functional unit of the kidney. Consists of a renal corpuscle (with Bowman's capsule), a glomerulus, a proximal convoluted tubule, a loop of Henle, a distal convoluted tubule and drains into a collecting duct with a related vascular supply.

Each human kidney has about a million nephrons.

The basic function of the nephron is to regulate water and soluble substances (especially ions) in the body by filtering it all out first, reabsorbing what should be kept and excreting the rest. This is a function vital to supporting human life.

The nephron filters the blood by several processes concentrating the filtrates, reabsorbing ions (such as sodium, potassium, calcium, hydrogen, bicarbonate, chloride, and ammonium ions), solutes (such as glucose, amino acids, phosphates, and so on) according to the body's needs under hormonal control, or from anti-diuretic hormones, aldosterone, parathyroid hormone, atrial-natriuretic peptide and others. In this process urine is produced, and in doing so, eliminates wastes from the body, regulates blood volume and blood pressure, regulates the levels of important electrolytes and metabolytes and regulates blood pH levels.

See also: physiology, urology

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nephron."

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Synonym: Nephron

Synonym: uriniferous tubule (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Nephron

English words defined with "nephron": Bowman's capsule ♦ capsula glomeruli ♦ glomerular capsule ♦ malpighian body, malpighian corpuscle ♦ renal corpuscle. (references)

Specialty definitions using "nephron": Kallikrein-Kinin System ♦ Loop of Henle. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Nephron

Domain	Title
Books	The Distal Nephron in the Kidney of Fishes (Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology, Vol 108) (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Nephron

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Each glomerulus-and-tubule unit is called a nephron. (references)
		Many different kinds of diseases can cause swelling or scarring of the nephron or glomerulus. (references)
		In the nephron, tiny blood vessels called capillaries intertwine with tiny urine-carrying tubes called tubules. (references)
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nephron

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
nephron	73
diagram nephron	12
nephron pharmaceutical	8
kidney nephron	5
nephron picture	4
nephron function	4
nephron structure	4
dental nephron	3
nephron anatomy	2
center information nephron	2
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Modern Translations: Nephron

Language		Translations for "nephron"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		nephron, nefron. (various references)

Dutch		nephron, nefron. (various references)

French		néphron. (various references)

German		Nephron. (various references)

Italian		nefrone. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ネオン管 (bottleneck, drip-dry, import restriction list, Is it so?, nack chain, Nebraska, neck, neckerchief, necking, necklace, neckline, necktie, necktie pin, necrophilia, necrophobia, nector, negative, negative color, neglect, negligee, negotiation, Nelson, neon tube, nepenta, nephrosis, nepotism, Neptune, neptunium, Nescafe, -ness, nest, nest table, nesting, Nestle, net, net ball, Net citizen, net in, net play, net price, net score, netball falling in, netizen, net-mask, nettopology, network, network administration, networker, networking, Nevada, Never give up!, Never happen, Never mind, next, no carbon, no-iron, permanent snowpatch, Really?, several tables inside each other, tie, wash and wear). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ネフロン . (various references)

Pig Latin		ephronnay

Portuguese		nefrite túbulo-intersticial (chromoprotein kidney, lower nephron nephrosis), nefrite epitelial degenerativa (chromoprotein kidney, lower nephron nephrosis). (various references)
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Derivations: Nephron

Derivations
	Words beginning with "nephron": nephrons. (additional references)
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Rhyming with "Nephron"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "nephron" (pronounced ne"frÄn)
3	-r Ä n	electron, interferon, negatron, oxymoron.
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Anagrams: Nephron

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-h-n-n-o-p-r"
	-2 letters: ephor, heron, honer, hoper, phone, prone.
	-3 letters: hern, hero, hoer, hone, hope, horn, neon, none, nope, open, peon, phon, pone, pore, porn, repo, rope.
	-4 letters: eon, ern, hen, hep, her, hoe, hon, hop, noh, nor, one, ope, ore, peh, pen, per, poh, pro, rep, rho, roe.
	-5 letters: eh, en, er, he, ho, ne, no, oe, oh, on, op, or, pe, re.
	Words containing the letters "e-h-n-n-o-p-r"
	+1 letter: nephrons.
	+2 letters: alpenhorn, endorphin.
	+3 letters: alpenhorns, endorphins, nalorphine, pennyworth, prehension.
	+4 letters: chaperoning, ctenophoran, francophone, handyperson, nalorphines, pennyworths, pentahedron, prehensions, preluncheon.
	+5 letters: anchorperson, apprehension, counterpunch, ctenophorans, enantiomorph, handypersons, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hypertension, nonspherical, pentahedrons, philodendron, premonishing, reprehension, trephination, unchaperoned.
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