collecting tubule

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the part of a nephron that collects the urine from the distal convoluted tubule and discharges it into the pelvis of the kidney.

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Panicked, I reached out to hoarding experts, who often refer to any kind of obsessive digital collecting as “infomania.”
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“There is a certain cultural kudos attached to collecting today,” Gilkes says.
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Al-Araj, collecting his thoughts, said that most of the recent violence was the work of individual Palestinians.
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The video also argues that ISIS is collecting followers across the Middle East, even as far east as China.
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“In the long run, the government will earn money by granting work permits,” and collecting taxes from undocumented workers.
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A very interesting way of studying Ferns is that of collecting the fronds of the species which the hunter may come across.
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As judge, I set about collecting his property with much diligence, involving considerable hardship.
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To prevent the old disputes in collecting his corn tithes, he had at work one of Captain Trevithick's steam thrashing machines.
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But the Earls of Mar and Athol are collecting their forces, and some other nobles of the land are drawing to their party.'
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He did not mind the trouble of collecting, and he could fight off repairs longer than any landlord in town.
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collecting tubule

[ kə-lĕk′tĭng ]

Any of the various straight tubules of the kidney, present in the medulla and the medullary ray of the cortex.