A paired organ of the urinary tract that produces urine and maintains bodily fluid homeostasis, blood pressure, pH levels, red blood cell production and skeleton mineralization. [ http://anatomy.uams.edu/anatomyhtml/kidney.html http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25140012 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35003210 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney https://www.kidney.org/kidneydisease/top-5-jobs-kidneys-do ]
Term information
- XAO:0003267
- MESH:D007668
- MIAA:0000119
- Wikipedia:Kidney
- BTO:0000671
- GAID:423
- galen:Kidney
- CALOHA:TS-0510
- AAO:0000250
- MAT:0000119
- UMLS:C0022646 (ncithesaurus:Kidney)
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One of either of a pair of structures lying on either side of the dorsal aorta in which fluid balance is regulated and waste is excreted out in the form of urine.[AAO]
Term relations
- abdomen element
- cavitated compound organ
- lateral structure
- in lateral side of some multicellular organism
- develops from some kidney mesenchyme
- develops from some kidney rudiment
- part of some abdomen
- contributes to morphology of some renal system
- in taxon some Vertebrata
- part of some upper urinary tract
- kidney arterial blood vessel
- inner medulla of kidney
- outer medulla of kidney
- cortex of kidney
- renal pelvis
- kidney epithelial cell
- kidney capillary
- kidney blood vessel
- uriniferous tubule
- kidney interstitium
- kidney granular cell
- hilum of kidney
- renal sinus
- capillary network of kidney
- peritubular capillary plexus of kidney
- anterior surface of kidney
- posterior surface of kidney
- renal fat pad
- renal venous blood vessel
- kidney capsule
- medullary region of kidney
- renal medulla
- nephric duct
- straight venules of kidney
- primitive nephron
- renal lobule
- renal lobe
- kidney corticomedullary boundary
- head kidney
- kidney vasculature
- renal duct
- kidney cell
- renal parenchyma
- renal collecting system
- kidney epithelium