ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -The basic filtration unit of the kidney is called nephron. It is used to separate water, ions and small molecules from the blood, filter out wastes and toxins, and return the required molecules into the blood. Bowman’s capsule is a cup-like sack at the beginning of the tubular component of a nephron in the kidney.

Detailed explanation-2: -Each of your kidneys is made up of about a million filtering units called nephrons. Each nephron includes a filter, called the glomerulus, and a tubule. The nephrons work through a two-step process: the glomerulus filters your blood, and the tubule returns needed substances to your blood and removes wastes.

Detailed explanation-3: -The nephron is the filtering unit of the kidney. The nephron is called so because it removes harmful wastes from the blood, such as urea, uric acids, and excess of water. These wastes get filtered from the blood and excreted out as urine and useful products are reabsorbed by the tubular part of the nephron.

Detailed explanation-4: -Nephron is a cluster of thin walled blood capillaries is the basic filtration unit of the human excretory system. In humans, a normal kidney contains 800, 000 to 1.5 million nephrons. The nephron carries out all the functions of kidney and known as the functional unit of a kidney.

Detailed explanation-5: -The kidneys remove urea from the blood through tiny filtering units called nephrons. Each nephron consists of a ball formed of small blood capillaries, called a glomerulus, and a small tube called a renal tubule.