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Vocabulary
Organ
Structure
Dialysis
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100
Tube that carries urine from the bladder and releases it from the body.
What is the urethra?
100
Organ that collects urine excreted by the kidneys.
What is the urinary bladder?
100
Inner part of a kidney.
What is the renal medulla?
100
The function of dialysis is to filter blood and remove extra fluids and wastes, returning cleaned blood to your body.
What is the function of dialysis?
100
System that collects blood and filters it to remove wastes produced by cells.
What is the excretory system?
200
Tube that carries urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder.
What is the ureter?
200
Organ that excretes water and salts, as well as a small amount of urea in the form of sweat.
What is the skin?
200
Outer part of a kidney and also its where nephrons are located.
What is the renal cortex?
200
Homeostasis by machine.
What is dialysis?
200
Two distinct processes of blood purification.
What is filtration and reabsorption?
300
Cup-shaped structure in the upper end of a nephron that encases the glomerulus.
What is the bowman's capsule?
300
Sponge-like organs that absorb oxygen and diffuse gaseous wastes, such as carbon dioxide, from the bloodstream.
What are the lungs?
300
The functional unit of a kidney.
What is a nephron?
300
The founder of dialysis.
Who is Thomas Graham ?
300
The watery fluid that contains urea, excess water, and other wastes materials.
What is urine?
400
Section of the nephron tubule that conserves water and minimizes the volume of urine.
What is the loop of henle?
400
The organ which serve the body as a natural filter of the blood, and remove wastes which are diverted to the urinary bladder.
What is the kidney?
400
The funnel-like dilated proximal part of the ureter in the kidney.
What is the renal pelvis?
400
Filter that filters the blood through dialysis.
What is a dialyzer?
400
The chemical eliminated through the excretory system which comes from the breakdown of proteins.
What is urea?
500
Process by which a liquid or gas passes through a filter to remove wastes.
What is filtration?
500
Excretory organ where urea is produced.
What is the liver?
500
Tough fibrous layer surrounding the kidney to protect it from trauma and damage.
What is the renal capsule?
500
The two main types of dialysis.
What is hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis?
500
Where glucose and water are reabsorbed and become filtrate.
What is the proximal convoluted tubule?