Henle's loop

Henle's loop

n.

See nephronic loop.

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Henle's loop.

See loop of Henle.

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loop

a turn or sharp curve in a cordlike structure.

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capillary l's

minute endothelial tubes that carry blood, as in the papillae of the skin.

closed loop

a system in which the input to one or more of the subsystems is affected by its own output.

diuretic loop

loop of Henle diuretic.

Henle's loop

see henle's loop.

intestinal loop

in most species the small intestine is arranged in a series of indefinite open loops. In ducks and geese the loops are closed, finite structures, five to eight in number, and are located more or less in fixed positions. The supraduodenal loop is one of them.

open loop

a system in which an input alters the output, but the output has no effect on the input.