EXCRETION
Across
- 2. Vapor excreted by lungs and skin
- 5. Organ that excretes water, salts, and urea
- 6. Waste produced from chemical reactions in cells
- 9. Maintenance of stable internal environment
- 11. Toxic waste converted to urea in humans
- 13. Substance detoxified by liver
- 14. Tube carrying urine out of body
- 15. Substance broken down by liver
- 18. Structure in nephron where filtration occurs
- 19. Organ that filters blood and removes waste
- 20. Functional unit of the kidney
- 22. Liquid waste excreted by kidneys
- 23. Control of water and salt balance
- 26. Waste formed from breakdown of proteins
- 28. Process of filtering small molecules from blood
- 29. Organs that excrete carbon dioxide and water vapor
Down
- 1. Gas excreted by lungs
- 3. System that removes metabolic waste
- 4. Process of taking useful substances back into blood
- 5. Structure in skin that produces sweat
- 7. Organ that detoxifies harmful substances
- 8. Organ that stores urine
- 10. Artificial process of filtering blood
- 12. Process in liver removing amino group from proteins
- 16. Capillary network inside Bowman's capsule
- 17. Removal of metabolic waste from the body
- 21. Tube carrying urine from kidney to bladder
- 24. Liquid excreted by skin
- 25. Process of sweating to remove waste and cool body
- 27. Structure in nephron where reabsorption occurs