Structure of the kidney

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What blood vessel supplys blood to the kidney?
Renal artery
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What blood vessel takes blood away from the kidney?
Renal vein
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What area of the kidney has the glomerulus, bowman's capsule and convoluted tubules?
Cortex
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What area of the kidney has the loop of henle, collecting ducts?
Medulla
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What structure filters the blood, and we have millions of them?
nephron
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Cup-shaped structure that contains the glomerulus.
Bowman's capsule
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The first, coiled region of the tubule after the bowmans capsule, found in the cortex
Proximal convuluted tubule
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Long loop of tubule that creates a very high solute concentration in the tissue fluid.
Loop of henle
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a Second twisted tubule wherethe fine-turning of the wate rbalance of the body takes place. ADH
Distal convuluted tubule
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The urine passes down theses through the medulla to the pelvis
collecting duct
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the larger arteriole that supplys blood to the glomerulus
afferent
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The samller arteriole that the blood leaves through
efferent
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What are on the wall of the bowman's capsule and provide additional filtration.
Podocytes
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What area of the kidney has the loop of henle, collecting ducts?

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What structure filters the blood, and we have millions of them?

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