These lining cells are shaped like little boxes. They line tiny tubes and help take in or give out useful stuff.
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Cuboidal means shaped like a cube. These lining cells are about as tall as they are wide, like sugar cubes lined up in a row.
Each one has a round nucleus right in its middle.
Your kidneys have about a million tiny filters each, and many of the tubes connected to them are lined with these box cells.
Cube-shaped cells are thick enough to hold lots of busy cell machinery. That lets them take in things and give out things.
In your kidneys, liquid filtered from your blood flows through tiny tubes. The cube cells grab back the water and useful stuff your body still needs. What is left over becomes pee.
Press Take back water on the 3D model and watch the cube cells pull useful stuff out of the tube.
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