The Kidneys The Bodys Filters

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teacher The filtration process begins at the glomerulus, a tiny cluster of blood vessels that acts like a biological colander.

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teacher Inside each kidney, a million tiny structures called nephrons work together to clean your blood.

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Fun Facts

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Fun Fact

Kidney blood flow: Kidneys filter your entire blood supply roughly 40 times every single day.

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Quizzes

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What percentage of the heart's pumped blood goes directly to the kidneys every minute?

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If you stretched out all the microscopic nephrons from both human kidneys, how far would they reach?

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Approximately how many nanometers wide are the pores in the glomerulus's filtering membrane?

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What is the name of the tiny, high-pressure cluster of blood vessels where kidney filtration begins?

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How large is an average adult human kidney?

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Out of the 180 liters of fluid filtered by human kidneys daily, how much is actually turned into waste?

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What vital nutrients do the kidney's renal tubules actively pull back into the bloodstream during recycling?

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Which Italian biologist first discovered the microscopic filtering units of the kidney in 1666?

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Glosario

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Glossary

glomerulus (noun)
A cluster of capillaries at the end of a kidney tubule where waste products are filtered from the blood. In 1666, Marcello Malpighi discovered these tiny capillary networks while studying the microscopic structure of the kidney.

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Gossip

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Which kidney superpower is most impressive?

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