Title: Urinary and Excretory System: Components of the excretory system.ppt
1Urinary and Excretory System
- Unit 1 Components of the Excretion System
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3Liver
- a vital organ whose purpose is to detoxification,
protein synthesis and production of bile pigments
4Skin
- maintain body temperature (sweating) and
maintaining salt/water/urea concentration
(perspiration)
5Large Intestine
- Defecation
- Expel waste out of the body
6Kidney
- Filters blood to remove waste and balance the
concentration of water in blood. Conversion of
Ammonia to Urea and the excretion of urea
7Ureters
- Tube like structure that carries urine from
kidneys to bladder
8Urethra
- Tube like structure that carries urine from
bladder to the outside of the body
9Bladder
- stores urine until eliminated from the system
10Nephron
- tubules that are found inside kidneys. The
purpose of Nephrons is for filtration and
selective reabsorption of blood. Each nephron
contains bowman's capsule and renal tubule.
11Peritubular Capillaries
- drains reabsorbed materials into renal veins. It
also maintains concentration gradient in the
medulla of the adrenal gland.
12Bowman's capsule
- a ball unit found in the nephron.This unit
obtains blood plasma from the kidneys to the
nephron for water and ion reabsorption
13ADH
- increase the permeability of water
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