Urinary System Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. Produced as a by-product when amino acids are broken down.
  2. 6. Made up of a descending and ascending limb.
  3. 7. Part of the nephron that includes the glomerulus and glomerular capsule.
  4. 8. Outer region of kidney.
  5. 11. Useful substances are reabsorbed into capillaries from the renal tubules.
  6. 12. Substances are moved into renal tubules from peritubular capillary.
Down
  1. 1. Filtering units of kidney.
  2. 2. Amount of blood filtered by glomerular capillaries per minute or day.
  3. 4. Capillaries that filters blood in each nephron.
  4. 5. Type of nephron which lies almost completely in the renal cortex.
  5. 9. Tube that transports urine from kidney to bladder.
  6. 10. Takes urine outside of the body.