Kidneys
A narrow tube that carries urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
What are the Ureters?
The process by which wastes are removed from the body.
What is excretion?
This is the name of the tubule CLOSEST to the glomerulus.
What is the proximal convoluted tubule?
a watery fluid produced by the kidneys that contains urea and other wastes.
What is urine?
These are the sections of the kidney from the outside to the middle.
What are the capsule, cortex and the medulla?
A small tube through which urine flows from the body.
What is the Urethra?
This is the location of the excretory system in the body.
What is the lower back?
This is the name of the tubule FARTHEST from the glomerulus.
What is the distal convoluted tubule?
This is the place urine is actually created.
What are the kidneys?
This is the substance that the kidneys filter.
What is your blood?
A sack like muscular organ that stores urine until it is eliminated from the body.
What is your urinary bladder?
The number of organs that make up the excretory system.
What is 4?
This is the name of the descending and ascending portions of the nephron that create a loop.
What is the Loop of Henle?
small filtering structure found in the kidneys that removes waste from blood and produces urine.
What are nephrons?
This is the blood vessel that blood flows INTO the kidney through.
What is the renal artery?
The section of the kidney that empties into the ureters.
What is the renal pelvis?
The blood vessel that carries blood AWAY from the kidney.
What is the renal vein?
This is the final tube in the nephron that collects all of the waste and sends it to the renal pelvis and then the ureters.
What is the collecting duct?
This is a solid build up of calcium that can occur in your kidneys.
What is a kidney stone?
This is the filtering unit found inside your kidney. There are hundreds of them.
What is a nephron?
This is a sign that you have damage to your kidneys.
What is urinating blood?
These are the functions of the organs of the excretory system.
What are Kidneys-filter blood and makes urine Ureters-narrow tube that transports urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder Urinary Bladder-stores urine until it is eliminated from the body?
These are the arterioles that bring blood INTO and allow it to EXIT the glomerulus.
What are the afferent arteriole and the efferent arteriole?
A chemical in urine that comes from the breakdown of proteins.
What is urea?