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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A U-shaped segment of the nephron in a vertebrate kidney that functions in water resorption.
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- noun anatomy A loop-like structure in the kidney's
nephron that connects theproximal convoluted tubule to thedistal convoluted tubule .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle, (1809–1885), German pathologist.]
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