Explained in short about four organs of human excretóry system.
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Organs of excretion include the skin, liver, large intestine, lungs, and kidneys. All of them excrete wastes, and together they make up the excretory system.
Lesson Objectives
Define excretion, and identify organs of the excretory system.
Explain how the urinary system filters blood and excretes wastes.
Describe the roles of the kidneys in homeostasis.
Identify kidney diseases, and describe dialysis.
Vocabulary
bladder
dialysis
excretion
excretory system
kidney failure
nephron
ureter
urethra
urinary system
urination
urine
Introduction
If you exercise on a hot day, you are likely to lose a lot of water in sweat. Then, for the next several hours, you may notice that you do not pass urine as often as normal and that your urine is darker than usual. Do you know why this happens? Your body is low on water and trying to reduce the amount of water lost in urine. The amount of water lost in urine is controlled by the kidneys, the main organs of the excretory system.
Excretion
Excretion is the process of removing wastes and excess water from the body. It is one of the major ways the body maintains homeostasis. Although the kidneys are the main organs of excretion, several other organs also excrete wastes. They include the large intestine, liver, skin, and lungs. All of these organs of excretion, along with the kidneys, make up the excretory system. This lesson focuses on the role of the kidneys in excretion. The roles of the other excretory organs are summarized below:
The large intestine eliminates solid wastes that remain after the digestion of food.
The liver breaks down excess amino acids and toxins in the blood.
The skin eliminates excess water and salts in sweat.
The lungs exhale water vapor and carbon dioxide.
Urinary System
The kidneys are part of the urinary system, which is shown in Figure below. The main function of the urinary system is to filter waste products and excess water from the blood and excrete them from the body.
The kidneys are the chief organs of the urinary system.
Kidneys and Nephrons
The kidneys are a pair of bean-shaped organs just above the waist. A cross-section of a kidney is shown in Figure below. The function of the kidney is to filter blood and form urine. Urine is the liquid waste product of the body that is excreted by the urinary system. Nephrons are the structural and functional units of the kidneys. A single kidney may have more than a million nephrons!
Each kidney is supplied by a renal artery and renal vein.
The kidney and nephron are discussed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc8sUv2SuaY (18:38).
Additional information about the nephron is shown at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czY5nyvZ7cU.
Filtering Blood and Forming Urine
As shown in Figure below, each nephron is like a tiny filtering plant. It filters blood and forms urine in the following steps:
Blood enters the kidney through the renal artery, which branches into capillaries. When blood passes through capillaries of the glomerulus of a nephron, blood pressure forces some of the water and dissolved substances in the blood to cross the capillary walls into Bowman’s capsule.
The filtered substances pass to the renal tubule of the nephron. In the renal tubule, some of the filtered substances are reabsorbed and returned to the bloodstream. Other substances are secreted into the fluid.
The fluid passes to a collecting duct, which reabsorbs some of the water and returns it to the bloodstream. The fluid that remains in the collecting duct is urine.
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