English noun: kidney |
1. | kidney (body) either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine |
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| Samples | Urine passes out of the kidney through ureters to the bladder.
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| Broader (hypernym) | excretory organ, urinary organ |
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| Part holonym | adrenal, adrenal gland, arcuate artery of the kidney, arcuate vein of the kidney, arteria renalis, nephron, pelvis, renal artery, renal cortex, renal pelvis, renal vein, suprarenal gland, uriniferous tubule, vena arcuata renis, vena renalis, venae interlobulares renis, venae renis |
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| Part meronym | urinary tract |
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