Kidney Vocab
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Urinary System | System primarily responsible for water, electrolyte, and acid-base balance and the removal of nitrogen-containing wastes from the blood.
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Kidneys | Each of a pair of organs in the abdominal cavity of mammals, birds, and reptiles, excreting urine.
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Hydronephrosis | A condition that typically occurs when one kidney becomes swollen due to the failure of normal drainage of urine from the kidney to the bladder.
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Renal Artery | The arterial supply of each kidney.
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Nephrons | Are the structural and functional units of the kidneys and, as such, are responsible for forming urine.
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Renal Corpuscle | The initial blood-filtering component of a nephron.
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Renal Tubule | The part of a nephron that leads away from a glomerulus, that is made up of a proximal convoluted tubule, loop of Henle, and distal convoluted tubule, and that empties into a collecting tubule.
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Collecting ducts | Receives urine from many nephrons, run downward through the medullary pyramids, giving the pyramids a striped appearance.
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Glomerular Filtratrion |
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Oliguria | An abnormally low urinary output.
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Anuria | Failure of the kidneys to produce urine.
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