filtrate

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The stalactites - hundreds of mineral formations hanging like melted candle wax above us which naturally filtrate the rainwater - are being clogged by cement dust, he says.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2023

In the loop of Henle, the filtrate continues to exchange solutes and water with the renal medulla and the peritubular capillary network.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

From here, the papillae deliver the filtrate, now called urine, into the minor calyces that eventually connect to the ureters through the renal pelvis.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

This filtrate, which includes glucose, is then reabsorbed in another part of the kidney.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

I did not fail to observe that the rains which previously descended through these steep channels, would in future be kept back to filtrate through the scori�, without ever reaching the new channel.

From The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 by Palmieri, Luigi