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What is Excretion? Excretion in human being?

 Excretion in Human Beings

The excretory system of human beings includes a pair of kidneys, a pair of ureters, a urinary bladder and a urethra. Kidneys are located in the abdomen, one on either side of the backbone, Urine produced in the kidneys passes through the ureters into the urinary bladder where it is stored until it is released through the urethra.


How is urine produced? The purpose of making urine is to filter out waste products from the blood. Just as CO, is removed from the blood in the lungs. nitrogenous waste such as urea or uric acid are removed from blood in the kidneys. It is then no surprise that the basic filtration unit in the kidneys.

like in the lungs, is a cluster of very thin-walled blood capillaries. Each capillary cluster in the kidney is associated with the cup-shaped end of a coiled tube called Bowman's capsule that collects the filtrate.Each kidney has large numbers of these filtration units called nephrons packed close together. 7. Some substances in the initial filtrate, such as glucose. amino acids, salts and a major amount of water, are selectively re-absorbed as the urine flows along the tube. The amount of water re-absorbed depends on how much excess water there is in the body, and on how much of dissolved waste there is to be excreted. The urine forming in kidney eventually enters a long tube, the ureter. connects the kidneys with the urinary bladder. Urine is stored in the urinary bladder until the pressure of the expanded bladder leads to the urge to pass it out through the urethra. The bladder is muscular, so it is under nervous control, as we have discussed elsewhere. As a result, we can usually control the urge to urinate.

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