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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.
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nephron |
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nephron with
blood vessels
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