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PCAT A And P Urinary System
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1. Give medullary pyramids striations

2. Part of the nephron through which the filtrate passes to the collecting ducts

3. Region where blood vessels and lymphatic vessels enter the kidney

4. Main processing center of the urinary system

5. Made up of the descending LOH and the ascending LOH

6. Composed of cuplike epithelium that do not have microvilli and which helps to regulate the salts in the kidneys

7. Ducts that carry urine from the renal pyramid of the medulla to the renal pelvis for excretion through the ureters

8. Major functioning structure of the kidneys; consists of the renal corpuscle and proximal and distal convoluted tubules and nephronic loop

9. Layer of fat that attaches to the posterior wall of the abdomen and serves to cushion the kidney

10. Point of the pyramid that points inward

11. Large structure that is continuous with the ureter - composed of minor calyces that drain into major calyces

12. Outermost layer of the kidney - composed of kidney tissue - and serves to anchor the kidney to surrounding body structures

13. Deepest layer of the kidney and functions to prevent from spreading to the kidney

14. Found mostly in the cortex; 95% of all nephrons

15. Inner layer of the internal kidney; consists of 18 cone-shaped subsections called the renal pyramids

16. Place where urine collects before it leaves the body

17. Filtering device at the opening of the nephron; filters out large solutes and sends water and small solutes to the renal tubule

18. Found closer to the junction between the cortex and the medulla of the kidneys

19. Filtration - reabsorption - secretion and excretion

20. Outer most layer of the internal portion of the kidney

21. Cortical tissue extensions that come down between each of the 18 pyramids

22. Help to concentrate urine

23. Ball-shaped; in glomerulus where filtrate is formed from blood

24. Picks up solutes that have been filtered out in the glomerular bed and reabsorb them

25. Ball of capillaries containing endothelium - filtrate - the efferent arteriole and the efferent arteriole

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