Parts of a nephron Learn about the 5 major parts of the kidney's
nephron. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and
works at Khan Academy. Parts of a nephron ⇐ Use this menu to
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using these subtitles. - I'm gonna draw for you two of the most
important organs in the body. - They're on the left and right
side of the body and look pretty much like that. - They look
like kidney beans and that's what they are, they're kidneys. -
So we have some arteries, the renal arteries, that flow into
them. - And renal is just a word referring to kidneys. - And
we've got renal veins with blood flowing back out of them. -
Once the blood is headed back to the heart, we call it renal
vein. - And there are two of them. - The most important part of
these kidneys, certainly the part that makes them unique, - is
that they have these ureters. - And these ureters drain urine
into a bladder. - I'm gonn