Kidney pathways
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Kidney pathways
Ten clues about urine-forming structures, pathways and processes.
Microscopic kidney unit made of a renal corpuscle and a tubule (7)
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About this urinary system crossword
5 Across answers meet 5 Down answers. Follow selected normal human urinary structures from microscopic filtering units to urine storage and exit. Compare movement back toward the blood with transfer into the forming urine. One clue completes a renal-process name.
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Kidney pathways
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Across
4. Cell whose foot processes wrap the kidney's filtering capillaries (8)
6. Return of filtered water or solutes from renal tubules to the blood (12)
8. Tube carrying urine from a kidney toward the bladder (6)
9. Renal tubular ___: transfer of selected substances from blood into the forming urine (9)
10. Organ that forms urine while regulating water and dissolved substances (6)
Down
1. Microscopic kidney unit made of a renal corpuscle and a tubule (7)
2. Singular capillary tuft inside a nephron's filtering capsule (10)
3. Passage carrying urine from the bladder to the outside (7)
5. Clinical word for emptying the bladder by passing urine (11)
7. Muscular storage sac for urine before it leaves the body (7)