Do not peel or remove stems. Cover figs with water and boil 2 minutes. Drain. Gently boil figs in light syrup (1 cup sugar to 4 cups water) for 5 minutes. Add 2 tablespoons bottled lemon juice per quart or 1 tablespoon per pint to the jars.
With each heartbeat, blood flows through the kidneys. Each kidney contains up to a million filtering units called nephrons. Each nephron is made up of tiny capillary loops called a glomerulus. Millions of glomeruli (plural of glomerulus) filter urea, other waste and excess water from the blood.
salivary gland. Kidney (corpuscles and tubules) In contrast, the secretory units of the kidney, called renal corpuscles, comprise a relatively small proportion of the kidney. The bulk of the kidney consists of highly specialized tubules, which correspond to the duct tree of a typical gland. Together, the renal corpuscle and its associated tubule is called a nephron.