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- 6. Kidney failure can be inherited, such as:
- 8. The kidneys are protected by fat, muscles, and:
- 10. Involves placing a soft tube (catheter) into your abdominal cavity and filling it with cleansing fluid, which contains a type of sugar that removes waste and excess fluid.
- 12. The circular muscles that help keep urine from leaking:
- 14. Important functions of the kidneys include the control of blood pressure and the production of:
- 16. The main function of the kidney is the regulation of the internal environment through:
- 17. In the concave portion that faces inward there is a central region called:
- 18. medical treatment to clean the blood:
- 19. First procedure in which blood is filtered out of the body by a machine.
- 20. Blood is filtered by:
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- 1. Each kidney is made up of an outer renal cortex, an inner renal medulla, and a:
- 2. Erythropoietin, what does it control?
- 3. side effect of dialysis.
- 4. Glucose is not reabsorbed by the kidney, it appears in the urine, in a condition known as:
- 5. Each nephron consists of a:
- 7. What does it mean CKD?.
- 9. Tube that allows urine to pass out of the body:
- 11. The kidneys also regulate the balance of:
- 13. Organ whose function is to purify the blood and produce urine:
- 15. High blood pressure and diabetes are the main causes of: