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filters 200 liters of blood daily--allowing toxins, metabolic wastes and excess ion leave body by urines - regulate volume and chemical makeup of the blood - maintain the proper balance between water and salts and acids and bases |
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| provides a temporary storage resevoir for urine |
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| transport urine from kidneys to bladder |
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| transports urine from bladder out of the body |
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| the light colored, granular superficial region |
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| exhibits cone-shaped medullary (renal) pyramids |
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| made up of parallel bundles of urine collecting tubules |
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| inward extensions of cortical tissue that seperate the pyramids |
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| flat, funnel-shaped tube lateral to the hilus within the renal sinus |
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large branches of the renal pelvis - collect urine draining from papillae - empty urine into the pelvis |
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1/4 of systemic cardiac output flows through the kidneys each minute -nerve supply is via the renal plexus |
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| structural and functional units that form urine consists of glomerulus and glomerular (Bowman's) |
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| a tuft of capillaries associated with a renal tubule |
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| Glomerular (Bowman's) capsule |
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| blind, cup-shaped end of a renal tubule that completely surrounds the glomerulus |
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| the glomerulus and its Bow |
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