APMT1- Genitourinary System

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Across
  1. 2. Form a cluster of high-pressure capillaries called the glomerular capillaries
  2. 3. Entry and exit site for structures servicing the kidneys.
  3. 5. Means urinary bladder
  4. 8. Hormone that converts angiotensinogen to angiotensin I
  5. 10. Connects two capillary beds, the glomerulus and the peritubular capillaries
  6. 11. Means water
  7. 16. Low protein levels in the blood
  8. 18. Disorder caused by the compression of the urethra in a male patient
  9. 20. Carries the filtered, deoxygenated blood away from the kidney
  10. 21. Suffix meaning urine
  11. 22. General term for any disease of the kidney
  12. 24. Merge to form the renal pelvis
Down
  1. 1. PCT stands for:
  2. 4. Supplies the nerves to the kidney and the ureter
  3. 6. Each kidney has an outer cortex and an _________.
  4. 7. Opens to allow urine into the urethra yet prevents reflux of urine back into the urinary bladder
  5. 9. Pushes the urine into the bladder
  6. 12. Hormone precursor, an inactive form of a circulating hormone
  7. 13. A cone in the medullary system is also referred to as _______.
  8. 14. Filtrate moves from the PCT into the descending limb of the:
  9. 15. Swelling of the kidney
  10. 17. Means kidney
  11. 19. The act of emptying the bladder in referred
  12. 23. Brings oxygenated blood to the kidney