Excretory system

kidney

2/5 size organs in your abdominal cavity close to your spine responsible for filtering your blood of unwanted substances and producing urine

bladder

Muscular stretchy container for urine it can comfortably hold around 500 mL but to hold us over 1000 mL has a sphincter We learned to control in childhood

urethra

The tube To the outside that you're an exit through approximately 20 cm in males and 4 cm in females

The nephron

The functional unit of the kidney approximately 1 million per kidney. Non-cellular components of the blood get squeezed into the nephron and stuff is re-absorbed.

glomerulus

The sight of filtration

renal artery

Blood coming from this is forced into the glomerulus Under high pressure

bowman's capsule

Most of the liquid blood plasma is forced into the blank, which surrounded the glomerulus

proximal tubule

Bowman capsule is at the beginning of a long tube, called the blank and is the sight of re-absorption