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kidney tubule

Syllabification: (kid·ney tu·bule)
Definition of kidney tubule

noun

Anatomy
  • each of the long, fine, convoluted tubules conveying urine from the glomeruli to the renal pelvis in the vertebrate kidney. Water and salts are reabsorbed into the blood along their length. Also called renal tubule, uriniferous tubule.

kidney tubule in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of kidney tubule in the British & World English dictionary