Excretory System
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
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Of or relating to the process of ___
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To eliminate urine
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A depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ
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Either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes from the blood and excrete them
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The secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has (plural)
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A sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium
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Separation of substances in solution by means of their unequal diffusion through semipermeable
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Any of the small tubules that are the excretory units of the vertebrate kidney
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The tissue forming the outer layer of an organ or structure in plant or animal
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A compacted or sessile cyme
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An ___ originating from the abdominal aorta and supplying the kidneys and adrenal glands
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Any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules (plural)
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Lower or hindmost part of the brain
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A small intertwined group of capillaries in the malpighian body
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The discharge of urine
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Any of the ___ in the skin that secrete perspiration (plural)