Anatomy
This organ system is often referred to as the renal system.
What is urinary system?
The kidneys remove this from the blood to keep the body clean.
What is waste?
This organ stores urine.
What is the bladder?
The functional unit part of the kidney is called this.
What is a nephron?
This bean shaped organ is responsible for filtering waste from the blood and produces urine.
What is Kidney?
The kidneys help keep the amount of this mineral balanced so nerved and muscles work properly.
What is sodium?
These tubes carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
What are the ureters.
This term refers to the process of moving urine from the bladder out of the body.
What is urination?
The kidney helps remove this liquid waste from the blood.
What is urine?
The process where kidneys clean the blood.
What is filtration?
This tube carries urine out of the body.
What is the urethra?
This term means "inflammation of the bladder."
What is cystitis?
This tube carries blood into the kidney.
What is renal artery?
The kidneys help balance these particles like sodium and potassium
What are electrolytes?
Urine collects here inside the kidney before it enters the ureter.
What is the renal pelvis?
This word describes the watery part of blood that enters the nephron during filtration.
What is plasma?
These two tubes transport urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
What is ureters?
This major function of the kidneys remove harmful chemicals that the body can't use.
Urine flows from the major calyces into this funnel-shaped structure before entering the ureter.
What is the renal pelvis?
The medical term for "kidney stones."
What is nephrolithiasis?