Nephron Names
This cluster of capillaries is where blood is first filtered.
What is the Glomerulus?
This cell is processed through the glomerulus.
What are Red Blood Cells (RBCs)?
Along with ions, this fluid leads back into the bloodstream through reabsorbtion.
this process returns needed water, glucose and ions back into the bloodstream
What is reabsorption?
What organ contains the nephrons?
What is Kidney?
This tube begins the process of reabsorbtion of ions.
What is the Proximal Convoluted Tubule?
This is the final product of the nephrons.
What is urine?
This comes into the Proximal Convoluted Tubule, containing water and other ions.
What is filtrate?
What is the final waste product of nephron?
What is Urine?
This hormone increases water reabsorption in the collecting duct
What is ADH? (Antidiuretic Hormone)
This component is superior towards the Loop of Henle, and proximal to the collecting duct.
What is the Distal Convoluted Tubule?
This process sends fluids to the capillaries.
What is reabsorbtion?
This simple sugar is filtered into the nephron and reabsorbed into the PCT
What is glucose?
This component is the final process towards nutrient reabsorbtion before it is processed out.
What is the distal convoluted tube?
This pressure forces plasma out of the glomerulus and into the Bowman's capsule
This section of the nephron collects fluids and starts filteration.
What is Bowman's capsule?
This process leads to water to be filtered.
What is Filteration?
This vitamin is reabsorbed from the nephron back into the bloodstream.
What is Potassium/Vitamin K?
What odorless waste compound is primarily produced by the liver and excreted by the kidneys?
What structure collects urine from multiple nephrons?
Collecting duct
This component DOES NOT filter blood.
What is the Collecting Tube?
This vessel leads towards the oxygenation of RBCs.
What is the Efferent Arteriole?
This positively charged ion is a chemical that forms the most abundant component of the human body, and processed into both convoluted tubules.
What is hydrogen?
This odorless compound is a waste product, primarily produced by the liver.
What is urea?
This is permeable salt.
What is the Loop of Henel?