Editing Kidney (section)

====Medieval Christianity====
The Latin term ''renes'' is related to the English word "reins", a synonym for the kidneys in [[Shakespearean English]] (e.g. ''[[Merry Wives of Windsor]]'' 3.5), which was also the time when the [[King James Version]] of the [[Bible]] was translated. Kidneys were once popularly regarded as the seat of the [[conscience]] and reflection,<ref>{{cite book |author3-link=William F. May (ethicist) | vauthors = Ramsey P, Jonsen AR, May WF |title=The Patient as Person: Explorations in Medical Ethics |date=2002 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=978-0-300-09396-4 |page=60 |edition=Second}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=History of Nephrology 2 |date=January 1997 |publisher=Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers |isbn=978-3-8055-6499-1 | page = 235 | veditors = Eknoyan G, Marketos SG, De Santo NG }} International Association for the History of Nephrology Congress, Reprint of ''American Journal of Nephrology''; v. 14, no. 4–6, 1994.</ref> and a number of verses in the Bible (e.g. Ps. 7:9, Rev. 2:23) state that God searches out and inspects the kidneys, or "reins", of humans, together with the heart.<ref>{{citation |url=https://intertextual.bible/text/revelation-2.23-berakhot-119.29 |title=intertextual.bible/text/revelation-2.23-berakhot-119.29 |access-date=2022-12-15 |archive-date=2022-12-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221215081525/https://intertextual.bible/text/revelation-2.23-berakhot-119.29 |url-status=live }}</ref>