Kidney

In humans, the kidneys are two reddish-brown bean-shaped blood-filtering organs that are a multilobar, multipapillary form of mammalian kidneys, usually without signs of external lobulation. They are located on the left and right in the retroperitoneal space, and in adult humans are about 12 centimetres (4+1⁄2 inches) in length. They receive blood from the paired renal arteries; blood exits into the paired renal veins. Each kidney is attached to a ureter, a tube that carries excreted urine to the bladder. The kidney participates in the control of the volume of various body fluids, fluid osmolality, acid–base balance, various electrolyte concentrations, and removal of toxins. Filtration occur (Wikipedia)

Related conditions

• 3MC syndrome
• acrorenal syndrome
• acute kidney failure
• acute kidney tubular necrosis
• adenine phosphoribosyltransferase deficiency
• adult cystic nephroma
• Alport syndrome
• amelogenesis imperfecta type 1G
• anaplastic sarcoma of the kidney
• anti-basement membrane glomerulonephritis
• apolipoprotein A-IV associated amyloidosis
• ARC syndrome