Medical Conditions
What disease process causes a gradual loss of Renal Function?
What is Chronic Renal Failure?
What is the term for glucose in the urine?
What is Glucosuria?
Where in the body are the kidneys located?
The retroperitoneal cavity
What are the three main functions of waste elimination?
What is Filtration, Reabsorption and Secretion?
What is polydipsia.
These continuously move urine from kidneys to urinary bladder
What are Ureters?
This is a U-Shaped tubule that descends into the medulla
What is the Loop of Henle?
What is the hormone secreted by the kidney to regulate blood pressure?
What is Renin?
What disease process is usually caused by a toxicity or systemic disease?
What is Acute Renal Failure?
This structure conducts urine from body
What is the Urethra?
These carry blood into the glomerular capillaries of the renal corpuscle
What is Afferent glomerular arterioles?
Urine Volume Regulation is regulated by 2 hormones, what are they?
What are Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) and Aldosterone?
If drugs are too large to be filtered, by which process are the excreted from the body in the nephron?
What is Secretion?
What is a Urinalysis?
This is the basic functioning unit of the kidney?
What is a nephron?
What is the Glomerulus and Bowman's capsule?
In which structure does the most reabsorption happen?
What is the Proximal Convoluted Tubule?
What is Diabetes Insipidus?
Name 1 of the 5 functions the kidneys perform to maintain homeostasis.
Blood filtration, reabsorption and secretion, Fluid balance regulation, acid-base balance regulation, hormone production and blood pressure regulation
The point at which blood vessels, nerves, and ureters enter and leave the kidneys is known as the
Hilus
In the kidney, the primary site of action for ADH is located where?
What is the Distal Convoluted Tubule