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The Nephron

 The nephrons are where most of the work of the kidney takes place. They are very tiny and range in number from about 200,000 per kidney in a cat to several million per kidney in cattle. Each consists of a filtering unit, the renal corpuscle, and a system of tubules that work with the surrounding capillary network to process the filtrate into urine.

nephron
nephron with blood vessels