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Kedneys are responsible for filtering out toxic substances from blood. This process leads to urine forming. During twenty-four hours the kidneys filter about 170-180 litres of blood. |
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| People are not the only ones who use diapers. Sometimes also animals wear them. They find application for example in horses, which dung is later used as manure. In movies or TV programmes you can see diapered monkeys or chimps. Some dog owners diaper their she dogs on heat.
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| Sometimes even healthy people must use diapers, for example during long diving when divers are dressed in special diving suits. Diapers are also used by guards on sentry duty who cannot leave their position for a long time and even by astronauts during take-off, landing and space walks. | ||
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The state of the art diaper production lines produce over 1000 diapers every minute. Approximate sales of baby diapers in Europe in 2006 was almost 21 million pieces! In the USA over 460 diapers is used every second. |
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| Urinary system in women differs from this in men. The endpoint of the system - the urethra - has 3-4 cm in women and about 20 cm in men. Male urethra is also a part of genital system and functions as a semen outlet.
Urinary and genital systems form one genitourinary system, which ows its complex structure to mutual origin from one primordium.
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| The wall of an empty urinary bladder is about 10 mm thick. When the bladder fills in with urine, its wall stretches and becomes 2 mm thin at the maximum stretch. | ||
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