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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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| 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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| PROCESS WHEREBY SOME SUBSTANCES, BUT NOT ALL, PASS THROUGH A FILTER. IN THE KIDNEY, BLOOD PRESSURE FORCES MATERIAL THROUGHT 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 STRUCTURE 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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| TINY BALL OF CAPILARIES (MICROSCOPIC BLOOD VESSELS) IN THE KIDNEY. |
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| DEPRESSIN IN AN ORGAN WHERE BLOOD VESSELS AND NERVES ENTER AND LEAVE. |
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| ONE OF TWO BEAN-SHAPED ORGANS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE BACKBONE IN THE LUMBAR REGION; IT FILTERS NITROGENOUS WASTES FROM THE BLOODSTREAM TO FORM URINE. |
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| INNER REGION OF AN ORGAN. IT'S THE INNER REGION OF THE KIDNEY |
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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 IF FORMING URINE BY ITSELF. THERE ARE ABOUT 1 MILLION OF THESE IN A KIDNEY. |
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| BLOOD VESSEL THAT CARRIES BLOOD TO THE KIDNEY. |
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| CENTRAL COLLECTING 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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| AN ELECTROLYTE REGULATED IN THE BLOOD AND URINE BY THE KIDNEYS; NEEDED FOR PROPER TRANSMISSION OF NERVE IMPULSES, 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 FROM THE KIDNEYS TO THE URINARY BLADDER. |
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| TUBE LEADINF FORM THE URINARY BLADDER TO THE OUTSIDE OF THE BODY. |
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| HOLLOW, MUSCULAR SAC THAT HOLDS AND STORES URINE. |
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| FIRST PART OF THE SMALL INTESTINE. IT MEASURES ABOUT 12 INCHES LONG. |
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| RING OF MUSCLE AT THE END OF THE STOMACH, NEAR THE DUODENUM. |
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| THROAT, THE COMMON PASSAGEWAY FOR FOOD FROM THE MOUTH AND FOR AIR FROM THE NOSE. |
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