The Nephron
This is a dense assembly of tiny blood vessels that is important in filtration.
What is the glomerulus?
Medical filtering process used if kidneys fail.
What is dialysis?
Storage organ for urine, with walls that stretch.
What is the bladder?
The majority of urine's volume.
What is water.
Specialist who treats urinary system disorders.
What is a urologist?
Cup-shaped structure around the glomerulus.
What is the Bowman's capsule?
The force of blood that can destroy tiny blood vessels in organs like the kidney.
What is high blood pressure.
The tubes that stretch painfully when you pass a stone.
What are ureters?
A risk factor in forming kidney stones.
What is low fluid intake?
What is a high salt diet?
Another name for urination.
What is micturition?
A portion that descends into the medulla
for reabsorption.
What is the loop of Henle?
Renal calculus.
What is a kidney stone?
Tube that carries urine out of the body.
What is the urethra?
The end waste-product of protein breakdown.
What is urea?
CKD
What is chronic kidney disease?
Last convoluted tubule of the nephron.
What is the distal convoluted tubule?
Red blood cells in urine can produce this condition
What is polycystic kidney disease?
Funnel-shaped chamber inside the kidney that drains into ureter.
What is the renal pelvis?
Common ion that may be reabsorbed into blood and/or secreted with urine.
What is sodium?
This is present in urine if you have renal disease due to diabetes.
Glucose
Number of nephrons (approx.) in each kidney.
What is a million?
Vomiting and diarrhea can produce this fatigue producing condition.
What is severe dehydration?
White blood cells in different parts of the system are indications of this.
What is an infection?
Large molecules that are unable to pass through Bowman's capsule into renal tubules, in healthy individuals.
What are proteins?
Proteinuria.
What is protein in the urine?