Blood will enter a kidney via the renal artery. This artery branches to small segmental arteries and finally to small afferent arterioles. Each arteriole will lead to a capillary bed associated with the start of a nephron. This capillary bed is called the ___________________.
The glomerulus (plural glomeruli) is a network of small blood vessels (capillaries) known as a tuft, located at the beginning of a nephron in the kidney. Each of the two kidneys contains about one million nephrons.
