(June 2011). The nephron (from Greek Î½ÎµÏÏÏÏ - nephros, meaning kidney) is the basic structural and functional unit of the kidney. Its chief function is to regulate the concentration of water and soluble substances like sodium salts by filtering the blood, reabsorbing what is needed and excreting the rest as urine. nephron eliminates wastes from the body, regulates blood volume and blood pressure, controls levels of electrolytes and metabolites, and regulates blood pH.
Making the world better, one answer at a time. The country where the last name Burton originated is England. This name is used as a last name as well as a first name and means from the fortified town.
This name is of English locational origin from a place near Layland Lancashire, called Blacklache. The name derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century 'bloec' meaning 'black' or 'dark', plus 'loece' a boggy stream.The surname from this source is first recorded in the early half of the 14th Century, (see below).One, Nicholas Blackleech of Layland, Lancashire was 'doctor of phisick to King Henry VIII'.he first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of John del Blakelache, of Layland, Lancashire, which was dated 1332 - in the Lay Subsidy Rolls of Lancashire, during the reign of King Edward 111, known as the Father of the Navy 1327 - 1377.