Urinary System
Across
- 1. thin-walled tube that carries urine by peristalsis from bladder to outside body
- 4. form cup-shaped areas that encolse the tip of the pyramid
- 8. released when nucleic acids are metabolized
- 10. result of filtration, reabsorption and secretion
- 11. medial to the hilus
- 14. smooth, collapsible, muscular sac that stores urine temporarily
- 16. base of pyramid faces toward the tip
- 17. emerges from kidney hilus
- 19. smooth triangular region of bladder base
- 20. formed by liver to end protein breakdown when amino acids produce energy
Down
- 2. arterial supply of each kidney
- 3. surrounds the glomerulus
- 5. surrounds each kidney
- 6. metabolism in muscle tissue
- 7. a knot of capillaries
- 9. pyramids seperated by extensions of cortex-like tissue
- 11. encloses each kidney
- 12. nonselective, passive process
- 13. outer region of the kidney
- 15. kidney stones
- 18. structural and functional units of kidneys