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What is a nephridium?

What is a nephridium? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biology) a tubular excretory organ in some invertebrates
  2. (anatomy) the embryonic excretory organ that develops into the kidney
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Externally, the nephridium opens by a vesicle, as in many Oligochaetes whose lumen is intercellular.
Portion of nephridium of the hindermost leg of Peripatus capensis, seen in longitudinal and vertical section.
Close to the point where the vesicle joins the coiled section of the nephridium the former has a peculiar nick or bend in it.
There are thus substantial reasons for believing that the nephridium grows backwards from a funnel as does the coelomoduct.
The figure is given to shew the peritoneal funnel of the nephridium.

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