Blood flows from here into the kidney
What is the renal artery?
Blood flows from here away from the kidney.
What is the renal vein?
What are the some functions of the kidneys? (name at least two)
getting rid of wastes, filtering blood, reabsorption, and formation of urine
The inner area of the renal medulla is made of this.
What are renal pyramids?
The outer layer of the kidney
What is the renal cortex?
I connect the proximal convoluted tubule and the distal convoluted tubule. Water is reabsorbed through me.
What is the loop of Henle?
Both of these muscles must relax in order for you to release urine from your urinary bladder and urinate.
What are the internal and external sphincters?
The inner layer of the kidney
What is the renal medulla?
The components of a renal corpuscle.
What are the glomerulus and glomerular capsule (bowman's capsule)