Associations to the word «Nephron»

Wiktionary

NEPHRON, noun. (anatomy) The basic structural and functional unit of the kidney, which filters the blood in order to regulate chemical concentrations, and thereby produces urine.

Dictionary definition

NEPHRON, noun. Any of the small tubules that are the excretory units of the vertebrate kidney.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope