Dear fellow followers,
To start off our journey through physiology, we learned about the eleven body systems. The eleven groups of three that we split up into were each given a body system to research, my group was given the excretory system. The excretory system is made up of the skin, lungs, and kidneys- along with their associated organs. The kidney plays the biggest role in this system. As waste-laden blood enters the kidney and travels through it, urea, excess water, and other waste products are removed and collected as urine. The clean, filtered blood is then returned to circulation through the renal vein. The kidneys also play an important role in maintaining homeostasis. They regulate the water and therefore, blood volume, maintain blood pH, and remove waste products from the blood. If anything happens to the kidneys serious medical problems will soon follow.
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