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| converts poisonous nitrogen wastes (ammonia) into urea |
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| removes waste products from the blood, maintains blood pH, regulates water content and volume of blood |
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| compound that is produced when amino acids are used for energy |
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| tube that leaves each kidney, carrying urine to the urinary bladder |
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| stores urine before excretion |
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| outer part of kidney,contains nephrons |
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| inner part of kidney, contains loops of Henle |
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| vein that leaves the kidney |
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| functional units of the kidney; filters out impurities in blood and empties them into the collecting duct |
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| vessel through which blood enters a nephron |
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| vessel through which purified blood leaves nephron |
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| small network of capillaries in nephron encased by Bowman's capsule |
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| removed from blood into Bowman's capsule; contains water, urea, salts, glucose, amino acids, some vitamins |
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| nephron tubules reabsorb glucose, amino acids, vitamins into blood via active transport |
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| concentrates urine: conserves water and minimizes the volume of urine; most water is reabsorbed into the blood |
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| urea, excess salts, water |
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| tube through which urine is released from body |
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| general order of structures through which fluid passes in excretory system |
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| kidney --> collecting duct --> ureter --> bladder --> urethra |
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| crystallization of calcium, magnesium, or uric acid salts, in the urine, that can block the ureter and cause pain; often treated with ultrasound waves |
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| kidneys detect increase of salt in blood... |
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| return less salt to the blood through reabsorption, and excess salts are excreted via the urine |
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