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CALYX OR CALIX
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| CUP-LIKE COLLECTING REGION OF THE RENAL PELVIS. |
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| TUBE FOR INJECTING OR REMOVING FLUIDS. |
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| OUTER REGION OF AN ORGAN; THE RENAL ONE IS THE OUTER REGION OF THE KIDNEY. |
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| NITROGENOUS WASTE EXCRETED IN URINE. |
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| CHEMICAL ELEMENT THAT CARRIES AN ELECTRICAL CHARGE WHEN DISSOLVED IN WATER. THEY ARE NECESSARY FOR FUNCTIONING OF MUSCLES AND NERVES. |
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| HORMONE SECRETED BY THE KIDNEY TO STIMULATE THE PRODUCTION OF RED BLOOD CELLS BY BONE MARROW. |
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| PROCESS WHEREBY SOME SUBSTANCES, BUT NOT ALL, PASS THROUGH A FILTER. IN THE KIDNEY, BLOOD PRESSURE FORCES MATERIALS THROUGH THE FILTER (GLOMERULUS). ABOUT 180 QUARTS OF FLUID ARE FILTERED FROM THE BLOOD DAILY, BUT THE KIDNEY RETURNS 98% TO 99% OF THE WATER AND SALTS. ONLY ABOUT 1 1/2 QUARTS (1500 ML) OF URINE ARE EXCRETED DAILY. |
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| ENCLOSING STUCTURE SURROUNDING EACH GLOMERULUS. IT IS ALSO KNOWN AS BOWMAN CAPSULE AND IT COLLECTS THE MATERIAL THAT IS FILTERED FROM THE BLOOD THROUGH THE WALLS OF THE GLOMERULUS. |
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GLOMERULUS
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| TINY BALL OF CAPILLARIES (MICROSCOPIC BLOOD VESSELS) IN THE KIDNEY. |
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| DEPRESSION IN AN ORGAN WHERE BLOOD VESSELS AND NERVES ENTER AND LEAVE. |
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| ONE OF THE TWO BEAN-SHAPED ORGANS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE BACKBONE IN THE LUMBAR REGION; IT FILTERS NITROGENOUS WASTE FROM THE BLOODSTREAM TO FORM URINE. |
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| INNER REGION OF AN ORGAN. |
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| COMBINATION OF GLOMERULUS AND RENAL TUBULE WHERE FILTRATION, REABSORPTION, AND SECRETION TAKE PLACE IN THE KIDNEY. IT IS THE FUNCTIONAL UNIT OF THE KIDNEY, EACH CAPABLE OF FORMING URINE BY ITSELF. THERE ARE ABOUT 1 MILLION OF THESE IN A KIDNEY. |
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| SUBSTANCE CONTAINING NITROGEN AND EXCRETED IN URINE. |
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| AN ELECTROLYTE REGULATED BY THE KIDNEY SO THAT A PROPER CONCENTRATION IS MAINTAINED WITHIN THE BLOOD. IT IS ESSENTIAL FOR ALLOWING MUSCLE CONTRACTION AND CONDUCTION OF NERVOUS IMPULSES. |
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| PROCESS WHEREBY RENAL TUBULES RETURN MATERIALS NECESSARY TO THE BODY BACK INTO THE BLOODSTREAM. |
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| BLOOD VESSEL THAT CARRIES BLOOD TO THE KIDNEY. |
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| CENTRAL COLLECTION REGION IN THE KIDNEY. |
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| MICROSCOPIC TUBES IN THE KIDNEY WHERE URINE IS FORMED AFTER FILTRATION. |
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| BLOOD VESSEL THAT CARRIES BLOOD AWAY FROM THE KIDNEY AND TOWARD THE HEART. |
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| HORMONE SECRETED BY THE KIDNEY; IT RAISES BLOOD PRESSURE BY INFLUENCING VASOCONSTRICTION ( NARROWING OF BLOOD VESSELS). |
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| AN ELECTROLYTE REGULATED IN THE BLOOD AND URINE BY THE KIDNEYS; NEEDED FOR PROPER TRANSMISSION OF NERVE IMPULSED, HEART ACTIVITY, AND OTHER METABOLIC FUNCTIONS. |
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| TRIANGULAR AREA IN THE URINARY BLADDER. |
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| MAJOR NITROGENOUS WASTE EXCRETED IN URINE. |
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| ONE OF THE TWO TUBES LEADING FORM THE KIDNEYS TO THE URINARY BLADDER. |
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| TUBE LEADING FROM THE URINARY BLADDER TO THE OUTSIDE OF THE BODY. |
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| NITROGENOUS WAST EXCRETED IN THE URINE. |
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| HOLLOW, MUSCULAR SAC THAT HOLDS AND STORES URINE. |
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| PROCESS OF EXPELLING URINE; ALSO CALLED MICTURITION. |
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