Keeping up with the Kidneys
The kidney shape is commonly compared to this food.
What is a Bean, or Kidney Bean?
What is Aldosterone?
These are the functional units of the kidney where urine is formed.
What are Nephrons?
This process is the movement of water across a membrane in the kidneys.
What is Osmosis?
If you are dehydrated, your urine will be this color.
What is dark yellow, or golden?
The left kidney sits slightly higher because of this organ above the right.
What is the Liver?
This hormone increases water reabsorption.
What is ADH (Anti-Diuretic Hormone)?
This cluster of capillaries contains the union of the afferent and efferent arterioles.
What is the glomerulus?
These tubular structures drain urine into the bladder.
What are the Ureters?
This is the name of the artery that branches directly from the abdominal aorta into the kidneys.
What is the Renal Artery?
This is the name of the outer portion of the kidneys.
What is the renal cortex?
What is 125mL/Min?
Several distal tubules empty into this structure.
What are the collecting ducts?
This "reflex" ends with emptying or voiding the bladder.
What is Micturition Reflex?
This procedure is common among people with diseased or non-functional kidneys.
What is Dialysis?
Before modern medicine, frog eggs were used in this test.
What is Pregnancy?
This hormone system is activated by low blood pressure.
What is the R.A.A.S. (Rennin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System)?
These are the two types of nephrons. (Must Say Both).
What are juxtamedullary and cortical nephrons?
These are the three steps in urine formation. (Must Say All Three).
What are Glomerular Filtration, Tubular Reabsorption, and Tubulur Secretion?
This part of the nervous system can help constrict afferent and efferent arterioles if blood pressure is not normal.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
This hormone, secreted by the kidneys, helps stimulate red blood cell production.
What is Erythropoietin?
Angiotensin II stimulates thirst. This enzyme, produced in the lungs, converts this protein, produced in the kidneys, into Angiotensin II to help regulate glomerular filtration rates. (Must Say Both the Protein and the Enzyme involved).
What is ACE (Angiotensin Converting Enzyme) and Angiotensin I (protein)?
The ascending limb of the nephron loop is impermeable to this substance, while the descending limb is impermeable to these ions. (Must Say Both)
What are Water (on ascending), and Sodium and/or Chloride (on descending)?
Large proteins remain in the blood during glomerular filtration because they cannot fit through these structures of the capillaries?
What are Fenestrae?
This set of capillaries surrounds the loop of Henle and is the site of countercurrent exchange.
What is the Vasa Recta?