Multiple choice

Which of the following carries blood from the heart to the kidneys?

  1. Hepatic vein

  2. Hepatic artery

  3. Renal artery

  4. Renal vein
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Explanation

One quarter of the total blood output from the heart comes to the kidneys along the renal artery. Two renal arteries arise from the abdominal section of the aorta, each artery supplies a lobe of the kidney. The incoming artery divides into four or five branches, eventually forming arterioles, each of which leads to the compact ball of capillaries, called the glomerulus.

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