collecting duct
noun
variants
or less commonly collecting tubule
: a duct that receives and concentrates urine from the distal convoluted tubule of nephrons and discharges it into the renal pelvis
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These adjustments result from the mobilization armies of AQP-2 water channels, numbering about 12 million per collecting duct cell.
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Tamara Hew-Butler, CNN, 5 May 2021
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Tamara Hew-Butler, CNN, 5 May 2021
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