The nurse is caring for a patient with a kidney infection. When providing prescribed medications, the nurse should recall that which structure is the capillary network in each nephron?
a. Corpuscles
b. Glomerulus
c. Renal tubules
d. Bowman's capsule
ANS: B
The glomerulus is a capillary network that arises from an afferent arteriole and empties into an efferent arteriole. A. C. D. These structures are not the capillary network with a nephron.
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