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Is the glomerulus thought of as the filter of the kidney since it forms a fluid called filtrate or ultrafiltrate from the blood?
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What is Glomular Filtrate?
Perhaps, you wanted to know about 'glomerular filtrate'. Glomerulus is a microscopic structure in the kidney, consisting of capillary networks. It is here where the actual filtration takes place. If you wring a wet towel, you can see how water is squeezed out. Likewise, in the glomerulus, high water (hydrostatic) pressure leads to filtration, and the filtrate is called glomerular filtrate.
What is the knot of coiled capillaries found in the kidneys and forms the filtrate?
This is a tuft of capillaries called the glomerulus. The glomerulus is one of the key structures that make up the nephron, the functional unit of the kidney.
What is the urine-producing unit in the kidney called?
Nephrons. This includes the glomerulus where the blood stream encounters a connective tissue filter, the loop of Henle where the filtrate is concentrated and salts are exchanged and the collecting duct into which urine is collected.
What forces drives filtration at the glomerulus?
The pressure of the blood forces water and other small molecules through a capillary wall into the start of a kidney tubule, forming filtrate. - Campbell's Biology 7th ed.
What is the liquid that pass through the filtering funnel?
Filtrate. the ones trapped by the filter paper is called the residue
What do you call the liquid that passes through the filter paper?
It is called the filtrate. What remains on the paper is called the residue.
What is ball of capillaries called?
Glomerulus
What is the Liquid after filtration?
It is called the filtrate.
The materials that are filtered from the blood are called what?
It is called Filtrate
Clump of capilliaries in the kidney is called?
Glomerulus
What are filter sacs in the kidneys called?
Glomerulus
What is part of the nephron where substaces are filtered from glomerulus?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephron
