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kidney

Definition

  • noun: either of two organs in your body that remove waste products from your blood and make urine
  • noun: one of a pair of vertebrate organs situated in the body cavity near the spinal column that excrete waste products of metabolism, in humans are bean-shaped organs about 4
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: abatis, abdomen, animus

Examples

  • a patient with a damaged 'kidney'

  • steak and 'kidney' pie

  • a 'kidney' transplant

Movie quotes

  • (..) all that is meat. Alone you will have one hour to clean it, but if the climate doesn't accompany you will have less time to make it. To leave the deer in rooms. To remove those bowels, liver, kidneys, to remove the heart. Calm, calm. This is a rain of black boxes. Sr. Burke, Scott Baker, FBI, (..)
    2007 Into the Wild