Definition of Nephrostomes

1. Noun. (plural of nephrostome) ¹

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Definition of Nephrostomes

1. nephrostome [n] - See also: nephrostome

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nephrostomes

nephroptosis
nephropyosis
nephrorrhaphy
nephros
nephroscleroses
nephrosclerosis
nephroscope
nephroses
nephrosic
nephrosis
nephrospasia
nephrostogram
nephrostoma
nephrostome
nephrostomes (current term)
nephrostomy
nephrostomy tube
nephrotic
nephrotic oedema
nephrotic syndrome
nephrotics
nephrotome
nephrotomic
nephrotomic cavity
nephrotomies
nephrotomogram
nephrotomography
nephrotomy
nephrotoxic

Literary usage of Nephrostomes

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

1. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1888)
"Our belief that the nephrostomes in the frog open into the blood capillaries of the kidney, rests mainly on the fact that sections prepared after Nussbaum's ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (1907)
"How the presence of >o much water in the bladder is related to the tremendous development of the nephrostomes in this form is not at all easy to see, ..."

3. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1898)
"In this young female the nephrostomes opened into the meso- nephric tubules, ... There were open nephrostomes, like those described in ..."

4. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker (1897)
"nephrostomes are wanting. Until their development is known, ... in which as many as 12 or 13 nephrostomes may be present. In adults, the most primitive ..."

5. An Introduction to Vertebrate Embryology: Based on the Study of the Frog and by Albert Moore Reese (1904)
"Between the bottoms of these little nephrostomes and the Wolffian duct small twisted rods of cells appear which soon become hollow, and open into the ..."

6. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1902)
"My earliest stage shows two tubules on each side, with nephrostomes opening freely into the ... Between the nephrostomes, on either side of the mesentery, ..."

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