medulla - a darker coloured inner region made up of loops of Henle and collecting ducts and blood vessels, ureter - a tube that carries urine to the bladder, cortex - a lighter region made of Bowman's capsules, convoluted tubules and blood vessels, renal pelvis - a funnel shaped cavity that collects urine into the ureter, renal vein - brings blood from the kidney to the heart, renal artery - brings blood from the heart to the kidney, Bowman's capsule - the cup shaped closed end at the start of a nephron & surrounds the glomerulus, proximal convoluted tubule - looped tube surrounded by capillaries and epithelial cells with microvilli, distal convoluted tubule - looped tube surrounded by capillaries, collecting duct - end point where several distal convoluted tubules from several nephrons empty, loop of Henle - long hairpin loop that extends from the cortex into the medulla and back again. It is surrounded by capillaries, afferent arteriole - a vessel that blood from the renal artery moves into, it is wider than the efferent arteriole, efferent arteriole - blood from the glomerulus enters here, this is narrower than the afferent arteriole, glomerulus - a highly branched knot of capillaries inside the Bowman's capsule,

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