Across
- 5. Includes urniary bladder, urethra, and ureters
- 7. Straight vessels
- 10. Kidney keeps solute load of body fluids constant at ~300 mOsm using this
- 14. Reabsorption in reverse
- 16. Kidney has 8 of these
- 18. Clefts or openings between foot processes
- 21. Represent 85% of nephrons
- 22. Branching epithelial cells making up visceral layer of glomerular capsule
- 23. Gives urine its color
- 24. Thin viewing tube is threaded into bladder through urethra to examine the mucosal surface
- 25. Chemicals that enhance urinary output
Down
- 1. Renal tubule contents reclaimed and returned to blood
- 2. receives filtrate from many nephrons
- 3. Slender tubes that convey urine from the kidneys to the bladder
- 4. Another name for kidney stone
- 6. 5% of urine other than water, such as uric acid and creatinine
- 8. Artificial kidney apparatus
- 9. by renal tubules to produce urine
- 11. Responsible for filtrate formation
- 12. unit of kidneys
- 13. Group of tall, closely packed cells of ascending limb of loop of Henle
- 15. AKA juxtaglomerular cells
- 17. Hairpin loop in renal tubule
- 19. Nameof something that is toxic to kidneys
- 20. Equal to 0.001 osmol