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All of this comes together in this region here called the renal pelvis,
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this region where the renal artery enters,
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the renal vein leaves,
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and the ureter exits the kidney as well.
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Everything collects sort of at--what's at the bottom of this diagram
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but it would be on the inside or medial surface of the kidney
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and it's in its anatomic position.
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I mentioned last time that the functional units of the kidney
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are this structure called a nephron.
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Each kidney has about a million of these nephrons
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and that they're oriented within these layers,
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so a nephron is going to sit sort of this axis here,