uriniferous tubule

noun

1. a urine-bearing tubule in a nephron of a kidney.

Word History and Origins

Origin of uriniferous tubule¹

First recorded in 1855–65

Example Sentences

Hemorrhages into the stroma of the kidneys, the Malpighian tufts, and the uriniferous tubules arrest urinary secretion, and thus entail death.

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Female Parts.—H�morrhage, chronic leucorrhœa, in connection with copious, watery urine and sediments of mucous particles and uriniferous tubules; epithelium.

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Although secreted by the cells lining the uriniferous tubules, it is not formed in the kidneys.

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The apices of these cones, known as the papillæ, are crowded with minute openings, the mouths of the uriniferous tubules, which form the substance of the kidney.

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Removed by the uriniferous tubules of the kidneys and to a small extent by the perspiratory glands.

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