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The Respiratory System
Functions
The Excretory System
Odds and Ends
100
A watery fluid produced by the kidneys that contains urea and other waste materials.
What is urine?
100

Structure that separates the nasal cavity and is made of the vomer and perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bones

What is nasal septum?

100
These are the tiny sacs of lung tissue that specializes in gas exchange.
What is alveoli?
100
The major organs of the excretory system.
What are the kidneys?
100

The renal pyramids are also know as

What are the medullary pyramids?
200

The waste chemical that comes from the breakdown of proteins in the body.

What is urea?

200
The passages that direct air into the lungs.
What are the bronchi?
200

Vocal cords are found in this structure

What is the larynx?

200
By regulating the amount of fluid in your body is how the kidneys maintain..
What is homeostasis?
200

This potion of the nephron has a descending limb for water reabsorption and a ascending limb for salts

What is loop of Henle?

300
The sacklike muscular organ that store urine.
What is the urinary bladder?
300
a large dome shaped organ that move air into the lungs along with the rib muscles.
What is the diaphragm?
300
Tiny hairlike structures that sweep mucus in the respiratory system.
What are cilia?
300

The tube that is the primary site of reabsorption of glucose and amino acids in the kidney

What is the proximal convoluted tubule?

300

Term to refer to a structure being behind the abdominal cavity wall

What is retroperitoneal?

400
A small tube through which urine flows out of the body.
What is urethra?
400

Structures that turn, rotate, filter, and warm air as it enters nasal cavity

What are nasal conch? 

400

The capillary bed at the site of filtration of a nephron

What is the glomerulus?

400

The parietal layer of the Bowman's capsule is made up of this tissue

What is simple squamous epithelium?

400

The bump in your throat area is commonly called the "Adams apple" give its anatomical name

What is the laryngeal prominence? 

500
A narrow tube that carries urine from one of the kidneys to the urinary bladder.
What is the ureter?
500

Part of the throat that first is a shared pathway of the digestive and respiratory systems

What is the oropharynx?

500

These cells of the kidney are located on the visceral layer of the Bowman's capsule and are named for their "little feet"

What are podocytes?

500

Diabetes Insipidus is a condition in which this hormone is in lower or reduced amounts

What is Antidiuretic hormone?

500

Blood calcium is an important concentration to monitor in our bodies, name the structure that is the primary regulator of it

What is the Parathyroid hormone?

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