KIDNEY
Dictionary entry overview: What does kidney mean?
• KIDNEY (noun)
The noun KIDNEY has 1 sense:
1. either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine
Familiarity information: KIDNEY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• KIDNEY (noun)
Meaning:
Either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Context example:
urine passes out of the kidney through ureters to the bladder
Hypernyms ("kidney" is a kind of...):
excretory organ; urinary organ (an organ that separates waste substances from the blood and discharges them)
Meronyms (parts of "kidney"):
nephron; uriniferous tubule (any of the small tubules that are the excretory units of the vertebrate kidney)
renal cortex (the cortex of the kidney containing the glomeruli and the convoluted tubules)
venae renis (veins of the kidney; drain the kidney into the renal vein)
venae interlobulares renis (interlobular veins of the kidney; receive blood from the arcuate vein and empty into the renal veins)
renal vein; vena renalis (veins that accompany renal arteries; open into the vena cava at the level of the 2nd lumbar vertebra)
arcuate vein of the kidney; vena arcuata renis (veins that receive blood from interlobular veins of kidney and rectal venules)
arteria renalis; renal artery (an artery originating from the abdominal aorta and supplying the kidneys and adrenal glands and ureters)
arcuate artery of the kidney (curved arteries of the kidney)
adrenal; adrenal gland; suprarenal gland (either of a pair of complex endocrine glands situated near the kidney)
pelvis; renal pelvis (a structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter)
Holonyms ("kidney" is a part of...):
urinary tract (the organs and tubes involved in the production and excretion of urine)
