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Tubule   Listen
noun
Tubule  n.  
1.
A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.
2.
(Anat.) A minute tube lined with glandular epithelium; as, the uriniferous tubules of the kidney.






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... illustrate Kidney structure.— a.b.v., and e.b.v., afferent and efferent blood-vessels, of which the latter go to break up upon the tubli. B.c., one of Bowman's capsules of the cortex; ur.t., the uriniferous tubule running from it into the medulla, where it loops and branches; around it branches a blood-vessel, of which the latter go to break up upon the tubuli. c., cortex. g., glomerulus, a knot of blood-vessels in the capsule. m., ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells



Words linked to "Tubule" :   vasa efferentia, uveoscleral pathway, seminiferous tubule, uriniferous tubule



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