One symptom of kidney failure can be the appearance of blood in the urine. This would indicate that which part of the kidney was damaged?

A. proximal convoluted tubule
B. distal convoluted tubule
C. glomerulus
D. nephron
E. collecting duct


C. glomerulus

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