• mesonephros  (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)
• metanephros  (the third and final excretory organ that develops in a vertebrate embryo [in birds, reptiles, and mammals it replaces the mesonephros as the functional excretory organ and develops into the adult kidney])
• nephrite  (a white to dark green variety of jade, chiefly a metasilicate of iron, calcium, and magnesium [from the belief that it cured kidney diseases])
• nephrogenous  (originating in the kidney; able to develop into kidney tissue)
• nephrology  (the science that deals with the kidneys, especially their functions or diseases)
• nephron  (any of the numerous filtering units of the vertebrate kidney that remove waste matter from the blood)
• nephropathy  (a disease or an abnormality of the kidney)
• nephrosis  (a disease of the kidneys marked by degenerative lesions, especially of the winding uriniferous tubules)
• nephrostome  (the ciliated funnel-shaped inner opening of a nephridium into the coelom in some invertebrates and lower vertebrates)
• nephrotomy  (surgical incision into the kidney)
• perinephrium  (the connective and fatty tissue surrounding a kidney)
• pronephros  (a kidneylike organ, being either part of the most anterior pair of three pairs of organs in a vertebrate embryo, disappearing early in the embryonic development of higher vertebrates, but functioning as a kidney in some simple vertebrates, such as the lamprey)

• cyma  (a molding for a cornice, having a partly concave and partly convex curve in profile, used especially in classical architecture)
• cymatium  (a molding for a cornice, having a partly concave and partly convex curve in profile, used especially in classical architecture; the topmost molding of a classical cornice)
• cyme  (a usually flat-topped or convex flower cluster in which the main axis and each branch end in a flower that opens before the flowers below or to the side of it)
• cymophane  (a variety of chrysoberyl having a shimmering luster and microscopic, needlelike inclusions that reflect a streak of light)
• kymocyclograph  (a device for recording the oscillations of an aircraft in flight)
• kymogram  (a graph or record made by a kymograph)
• kymograph  (an instrument for recording variations in pressure, as of the blood, or in tension, as of a muscle, by means of a pen or stylus that marks a rotating drum)
• kymography  (a procedure for recording variations in motion or pressure; such as, of blood, consisting typically of a stylus and a rotating drum)
• kymoscope  (an apparatus which once was used for measuring the pulse waves or the variation in blood pressure)
• kymotrichous or cymotrichous  (having wavy hair)

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Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002.
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