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mes·o·neph·ros (m

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The second of the three excretory organs that develop in a vertebrate embryo, becoming the functioning kidney in fish and amphibians but replaced by the metanephros in higher vertebrates. Also called Wolffian body.

[meso- + Greek nephros, kidney.]

meso·nephric adj.

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