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Breast Cancer Detection Kidney Disease Choose Topic + Also Known As: Renal Disease, Kidney Failure, Chronic Kidney Disease, CKD, Acute Kidney Injury, AKI, Acute Renal Failure, ARF, End Stage Renal Disease, ESRD, Nephrotic Syndrome
This article was last reviewed on March 28, 2014. This article was last modified on October 25, 2017.
What are the kidneys? The kidneys are part of the body's urinary tract. The urinary tract consists of two kidneys, two tube-like ureters that drain urine from each kidney into the bladder (a storage sac), and the urethra (/glossary/urethra), another tube that carries the urine out of the body. Muscles help control the release of urine from the bladder. The kidneys are a pair of bean-shaped organs that are located at the bottom of the ribcage in the right and left sides of...
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