Anatomy Vocab Chapter 18 Crossword
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
 
 
Down: 1) Muscular tubes, lined by by transitional epithelium, that carry urine from the renal pelvis to the urinary bladder.2) Macula densa and the juxtaglomerular cells; a complex responsible for the release of renin and erythropoietin. 4) Component of the urinary system; an organ functioning in the regulation of plasma composition, including the excretion of wastes and the maintenance of normal fluid and electrolyte balance.6) Hormone that causes an elevation in systemic blood pressure, stimulates secretion of aldosterone, promotes thirst, and causes release of ADH.9) Mineralocorticoid produced by the adrenal cortex; stimulates sodium and water conservation at the kidneys; secreted in response to the presence of angiotensin II.13) Unnation16) Basic functional unit of the kidney.18) Solution that includes waste products that comes from the body, to help regulate the composition of the blood. Across: 3) Ball or knot; in the kidneys, knot of capillaries that projects into the enlarged, proximal end of a nephron; the site of filtration, first step is urine production. 5) Fluid produced by filtration at a glomerulus in the kidney.7) Loop that is composed of a descending-limb that travels toward the renal pelvis and an ascending-limb that returns to the cortex.8) Abnormal physiological state characterized by a plasma pH below 7.35.10) Interacting compounds that prevent increases or decreases in the pH of body fluids.11) Muscular, distensible sac that stores urine prior to micturition. 12) Rate of filtrate formation at the glomerulus.14) Enzyme released by the kidney cells when renal blood pressure of O2 level declines. 15) Condition characterized by a plasma pH of greater than 7.45 and associated with relative deficiency of hydrogen ions or and excess of bicarbonate ions.17) Network of capillaries that surrounds the proximal and distal continued convoluted tubules of the kidneys.
 

 

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