Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
NEPHRON
nephron, uriniferous tubule
(noun) any of the small tubules that are the excretory units of the vertebrate kidney
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
nephron (plural nephrons)
(anatomy) The basic structural and functional unit of the kidney, which filters the blood in order to regulate chemical concentrations, and thereby produces urine.
Source: Wiktionary
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