Kidney Vocab Word Scramble
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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. |
Kidneys | Each of a pair of organs in the abdominal cavity of mammals, birds, and reptiles, excreting urine. |
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. |
Renal Artery | The arterial supply of each kidney. |
Nephrons | Are the structural and functional units of the kidneys and, as such, are responsible for forming urine. |
Renal Corpuscle | The initial blood-filtering component of a nephron. |
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. |
Collecting ducts | Receives urine from many nephrons, run downward through the medullary pyramids, giving the pyramids a striped appearance. |
Glomerular Filtratrion | |
Oliguria | An abnormally low urinary output. |
Anuria | Failure of the kidneys to produce urine. |
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Christan Coronado
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