tubular

adj.

1. Of or relating to a tube.
2. Constituting or consisting of tubes or a tube.
3. Shaped like a tube.

tubularity tu'bu·lar'i·ty (-lăr'ĭ-tē) n.
tubularly tu'bu·lar·ly adv.

1. pertaining to renal tubules.
2. pertaining to fallopian tube.

• t. backleak — leakage of tubular fluid into the interstitium of the kidney is one of the factors in the pathogenesis of acute renal failure.
• t. maxima — the concentrations of solutes at which the renal tubules are working at full capacity and further increases in concentration will not increase the function. Called also T_m.
• t. necrosis — acute necrosis of the tubular epithelium caused usually by ischemia or exposure to a nephrotoxin; in most cases the patient succumbs to uremia in a few days. See also nephrosis.
• t. proteinuria — failure of the tubules to resorb small molecule proteins excreted by the glomerulus.
• t. reabsorption — reabsorption of solutes from the glomerular filtrate by the tubules, the conservation of protein, glucose and bicarbonate, and the conservation of the water that accompanies them.
• t. transport — refers to all processes which occur with renal tubular fluid during its transport from glomerular space to renal pelvis.
• t. transport maximum — when the tubular transport maximum for a renal tubular solute is exceeded the solute appears in the urine.

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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids)
  Synonym: cannular

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - rørformet
n. - rør

Nederlands (Dutch)
buisvormig

Français (French)
adj. - tubulaire
n. - pneu tubulaire, matériel de forage fait de tubes (npl)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - rohrförmig, Röhren..., Stahlrohr...
n. - Röhrenreifen, Bohrgerätschaft aus Röhrem

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - σωληνοειδής, σωληνωτός

Italiano (Italian)
tubolare

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - tubular, brônquico (m)

Русский (Russian)
трубчатый, (о звуке) трубный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - tubular
n. - tubular

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - rörformig, tubformig, rör-

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
管状的, 管状物

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 管狀的
n. - 管狀物

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 관의, 관계 조직의, 기관음의
n. - 관 모양, 관계 조직 , 기관음

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 管状の, 管から成る

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) أنبوبي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮דמוי-צינור, בנוי מצינורות, בעל צינורות, צינורי‬
n. - ‮צמיג מחובר לאופן, משמש בעיקר באופני-מירוץ, ברבים: ציוד לקידוח-נפט עשוי מצינורות‬

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