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Name the substances present in normal urine and two that are absent from it in a healthy person.
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Glucose is normally absent from urine because it is:
- anot filtered at the glomerulus
- bcompletely reabsorbed in the tubule
- cdestroyed in the kidney
- dsecreted into the blood at the collecting duct
Original Khojo Papers practice question — not from a past board paper.
Answer
completely reabsorbed in the tubule
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Explanation
Glucose is filtered freely but is taken back by selective reabsorption, chiefly in the proximal tubule.
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