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What is reabsorption?

What is reabsorption? Correct Answer Absorption of the filtrate by the renal tubules

The absorption of the filtrate by the renal tubules is termed as reabsorption. The tubular epithelial cells in different segments of the nephron perform this either by active or passive mechanisms.

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