KIDNEY

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kid⋅ney

[kid-nee]

–noun, plural -neys.

1.	Anatomy. either of a pair of bean-shaped organs in the back part of the abdominal cavity that form and excrete urine, regulate fluid and electrolyte balance, and act as endocrine glands.

2.	Zoology. a corresponding organ in other vertebrate animals or an organ of like function in invertebrates.

3.	the meat of an animal's kidney used as food.

4.	constitution or temperament: He was a quiet child, of a different kidney from his boisterous brothers.

5.	kind, sort, or class: He is only at ease with men of his own kidney.

Origin:
1275–1325; ME kidenei, kidenere (sing.), kideneres, kideneren (pl.); orig. uncert.; perh. a compound based either on nere (sing.), neres (pl.) kidney (OE *nēore; cf. OHG nioro, ON nȳra); or ei (sing.), eiren (pl.) egg ¹ , OE ǣg (sing.), ǣgru (pl.) (by assoc. with the organ's shape); for the first element cf. dial. kid pod (akin to cod ² )

Related forms:

kid⋅ney⋅like, adjective

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kid·ney (kĭd'nē)

n. pl. kid·neys

Anatomy Either one of a pair of organs in the dorsal region of the vertebrate abdominal cavity, functioning to maintain proper water and electrolyte balance, regulate acid-base concentration, and filter the blood of metabolic wastes, which are then excreted as urine.
The kidney of certain animals, eaten as food.
An excretory organ of certain invertebrates.
Temperment; kind: a person of the same kidney.

[Middle English kidenei.]

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Word Origin & History

kidney

c.1325, of unknown origin, originally kidenere, perhaps a compound of O.E. cwið "womb" + ey "egg," in reference to the shape of the organ. Fig. sense of "temperament" is from 1555. Kidney bean is from 1548.

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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: kid·ney
Pronunciation: 'kid-nE
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural kidneys
1 : one of a pair of vertebrateorgans situated in the body cavity near the spinal column that excrete waste products of metabolism, in humans are bean-shaped organs about 4¹/₂ inches(11¹/₂ centimeters) long lying behind the peritoneum in a mass of fatty tissue, and consist chiefly of nephrons by which urine is secreted, collected, and discharged into thepelvis of the kidney whence it is conveyed by the ureter to the bladder —compare MESONEPHROS, METANEPHROS, PRONEPHROS
2 : any of various excretory organs of invertebrate animals

Medical Dictionary

kidney kid·ney (kĭd'nē)
n. pl. kid·neys
Either of a pair of organs in the dorsal region of the vertebrate abdominal cavity, functioning to maintain proper water and electrolyte balance, regulate acid-base concentration, and filter the blood of metabolic wastes, which are then excreted as urine.

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