he kidneys are organs that serve several essential regulatory roles in most animals, including vertebrates and some invertebrates. They are essential in the urinary system and also serve homeostatic functions such as the regulation of electrolytes, maintenance of acid-base balance, and regulation of blood pressure (via maintaining salt and water balance). They serve the body as a natural filter of the blood, and remove wastes which are diverted to the urinary bladder. In producingurine, the kidneys excrete wastes such as urea and ammonium, and they are also responsible for the reabsorption of water, glucose, and amino acids. The kidneys also produce hormones including calcitriol, erythropoietin, and the enzyme renin.
Located at the rear of the abdominal cavity in the retroperitoneum, the kidneys receive blood from the paired renal arteries, and drain into the paired renal veins. Each kidney excretes urine into a ureter, itself a paired structure that empties into the urinary bladder.
Renal physiology is the study of kidney function, while nephrology is the medical specialty concerned with kidney diseases. Diseases of the kidney are diverse, but individuals with kidney disease frequently display characteristic clinical features. Common clinical conditions involving the kidney include the nephritic and nephrotic syndromes, renal cysts, acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, urinary tract infection, nephrolithiasis, and urinary tract obstruction.[1] Various cancers of the kidney exist; the most common adult renal cancer is renal cell carcinoma. Cancers, cysts, and some other renal conditions can be managed with removal of the kidney, or nephrectomy. When renal function, measured by glomerular filtration rate, is persistently poor, dialysis and kidney transplantation may be treatment options. Although they are not severely harmful, kidney stones can be a pain and a nuisance. The removal of kidney stones includes sound wave treatment to break up the stones into smaller pieces, which are then passed through the urinary tract. One common symptom of kidney stones is a sharp pain in the medial/lateral segments of the lower back.
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It is a bunch of little ducts that get bigger like a river leading to the bladder.
The nephrons of the kidney have two main structures: GLOMERULUS and RENAL TUBULE
I believe the macrostructures are the cortex, medulla, capsule, major calyx, minor calyx, column, pyramid, papilla, renal pelvis, and ureter.
It serves as a filter to all bad things you ingest.
its the structure of the kidneys
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No the renal cortex is the outer part of the kidney
The inner part of the kidney is called the renal pelvis which leads to the ureter
Medulla, renal pyramids, renal papilla , minor calyx, major calyx , renal pelvis , ureter
The renal cortex is the outer region of the kidney. The medulla is the inner region of the kidney.
The internal structure of a kidney is the renal cortex and the renal medulla.
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The renal cortex is the outer region of the kidney. The medulla is the inner region of the kidney.
The bladder empties into the urethra. The renal pelvis enters into the ureter. There is no kidney structure that empties into the urethra.
Renal Pelvis
The adrenal glands are what lie on top to the kidney.
The inner part of the kidney is called the renal medulla. Next to the medulla is the pelvis which collects the urine and becomes the ureter which goes down and opens in the bladder
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