4.10 Flashcards
Lungs
An organ that takes in oxygen and gets rid of carbon dioxide and water vapour
Excretion
Is the process that gets rid of unwanted or waste from the body
Kidneys
The organ that fliers blood and create urine with salt,water and waste
Nephrons
Are the things in your kidneys that flitter your blood
Ureters
They carry the urine to bladder
Bladder
A sac the holds the urine
Urine
yellowish liquid, produced in the kidneys. It is mostly water and contains waste products from the blood such as urea, ammonia and uric acid.
Urination
The process of taking the urine and expelling it outside your body
Urethane
It is the tube that carries the urine from the bladder out
Bowman’s capsule
a cup-like structure at one end of a nephron within the kidney
glomerulus
a cluster of capillaries in the kidney that acts as a filter to remove wastes and excess water, it is surrounded by the Bowman’s capsule inside the kidney
haemodialysis
The process of passing blood though a machine to get rid of waste
Skin
It is covering of a animals body