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- noun Plural form of
kidney .
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Urine from the second drainage represents urine that has collected in the bladder from the upper collecting systems, and the third urine specimen, most recently produced by the fetal kidneys, is usually the most reliable for analysis.
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People like Danovitch, who vehemently opposes financial incentives for donors, and people like Arthur Matas, who strongly supports such compensation, can all agree that swapping kidneys is a good thing.
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People like Danovitch, who vehemently opposes financial incentives for donors, and people like Arthur Matas, who strongly supports such compensation, can all agree that swapping kidneys is a good thing.
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“The potential need for kidneys is a lot greater than the waiting list itself,” says Arthur Matas, the director of the renal-transplant service at the University of Minnesota Medical School and a past president of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
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“The potential need for kidneys is a lot greater than the waiting list itself,” says Arthur Matas, the director of the renal-transplant service at the University of Minnesota Medical School and a past president of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
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Registries and chains provide a model for how an above-board market in kidneys might develop, protecting the interests of both donors and recipients.
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Registries and chains provide a model for how an above-board market in kidneys might develop, protecting the interests of both donors and recipients.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Columnist Art Buchwald, who chronicled the life and times of Washington with a wry wit for over four decades and endeared himself to many with his never-give-up battle with failing kidneys, is dead at 81.
Archive 2007-01-14 Bill Crider 2007
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You've managed to party yourself right into a tub full of ice, and one of your kidneys is now missing.
Well, I'm Awake archmage 2002
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In Tao teaching, the kidneys are a vital organ because they produce jing.
Tao I Dr. 2010
blafferty commented on the word kidneys
A mineral zone that contracts, expands, and again contracts downwards. (Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms)
July 4, 2011