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the art of revering the bean-shaped organs that secretly run your entire bloodstream
means the branch of medicine devoted to the kidneys — their function, their diseases, and the delicate chemistry of filtering your blood.
from From Greek 'nephros,' meaning kidney, joined with '-logia,' the study of. The Greeks named the bean-shaped pair, and centuries later medicine borrowed the word wholesale; the same 'nephros' hides inside 'nephritis' and the now-archaic 'nephric.' Curiously, the Latin word for kidney, 'ren,' went its own way into English ('renal'), so the organ ended up with two ancestral tongues — Greek for the doctor's specialty, Latin for the adjective.
- daily filtration
- kidneys process about 50 gallons of blood daily
- vintage word
- from Greek nephros, the kidney itself
- backup plan
- you can live healthily with just one kidney
- hormone factory
- kidneys make hormones controlling blood pressure and red cells
- dialysis debut
- first successful artificial kidney built in 1943
mayo clinic nephrology — leading u.s. kidney specialty practice treating 50,000+ patients annually
national kidney foundation — u.s. organization serving 37 million americans with kidney disease since 1950