tubule
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tubule /ˈtjuːbjuːl/
▶noun
- 1 a minute tube, especially as an anatomical structure.
- 2 Anatomy each of the long, fine, convoluted tubules conveying urine from the glomeruli to the renal pelvis in the vertebrate kidney.
– origin C17: from L. tubulus, dimin. of tubus ‘tube’.
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