Chiropractic is a health care profession that focuses on the relationship between the body's structureâmainly the spineâand its functioning.
The nephron, the functional unit of the kidney, is responsible for removing waste from the body. Each kidney is composed of over one million nephrons that dot the renal cortex, giving it a granular appearance when sectioned sagittally (from front to rear).
nephron. the structural and functional unit of the kidney, each nephron being capable of forming urine by itself. The nephron consists of the renal corpuscle, the proximal convoluted tubule, the descending and ascending limbs of the loop of Henle, the distal convoluted tubule, and the collecting tubule.Each kidney is an aggregation of about a million nephrons.rine is formed in the renal corpuscles and renal tubules by filtration, reabsorption, and secretion. See also kidney, malpighian corpuscle. The functional anatomic unit of the kidney, which consists of a glomerulus, convoluted tubules and a loop of Henle (nephron loop).