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Definition of Kidney

1. Noun. 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"

Definition of Kidney

1. n. A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland.

Definition of Kidney

1. Noun. An organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine. ¹

2. Noun. This organ (of an animal) cooked as food ¹

3. Noun. (figuratively) constitution, temperament, nature ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Kidney

1. a bodily organ [n -NEYS]

Medical Definition of Kidney

1. Two glands situated in the upper posterior abdominal cavity, one on either side of the vertebral column. The kidneys are shaped like two large beans, and act as a filter. The kidney function is to filter the blood and control the level of some chemicals in the blood such as hydrogen, sodium, potassium, and phosphate and they eliminate waste in the form of urine. (26 Nov 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kidney

Literary usage of Kidney

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1916)
"The kidney is held in position by its fatty capsule, by the peritoneum which ... In very rare cases the kidney is surrounded, to a greater or less extent, ..."

2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"Infections of the kidney. J. Iowa Stale M. Sac., 1921, xi, I. This paper contains an outline of infections of the kidney and a discussion of Cabot's method ..."

3. The Lancet (1898)
"The pathology of the kidney may be considered to include the study of at least three more or less separate classes of phenomena : (1) the mode of production ..."

4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The kidney is imbedded in a large quantity of loose fatty tissue, ... Occasionally the kidney may be bruised by blows in the loin or by being compressed ..."

5. Medical lexicon by Robley Dunglison (1860)
"That which is owing to the presence of worms in (he kidney. ... means 40 a medicine employed for the cure ol diseases of the kidney. ..."

6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"After a short description of the regional anatomy of the kidney, ... "A kidney is ' movable' when, though appreciably mobile to a greater or less extent, ..."

7. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"kidney is now exposed to view, and must be separated by the fingers, or u director, in order to reach the kidney. The operations of nephrolithotomy, ..."

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