Definitions
What is renal corpuscle ?
An expanded bulb like end of the nephew located in the cortex of the kidney.
What do kidneys do?
Kidneys makes urine
Tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the urinany bladder?
ureters
What percent of urine volume is water
95%
What is urethra?
Tubing that transport urine to outside of body.
What is reabsorb?
What does the ureters do?
Carry urine from each kidney to the urinary bladder
How long is the extension of the renal pelvis?
25 to 30 cm ( 10-12 inches)
What is an fibrous covering of connective tissue?
renal hilum.
What is urinary meatus?
External opening from the bladder to the outside.
What does descending mean?
Reabsorbs certain solutes, water and ions.
What does the functional units of the kidney do?
Filters blood to remove waste products
What is the primary function of the renal pelvis?
to transport urine
What kind of components are urea creatine potassium and ketone bodies?
Organic components
What is external urethral sphincter?
Sphincter muscle controlling urination
What is distal convoluted tubule?
Responsible for maintaining balanced ph levels of both blood and urine.
What does the Urethra do?
Allows urine to pass throw or leave the body.
What does ARF stand for?
Acute Renal Failure.
What is a dialysis fluid introduced into the peritoneum which acts as a dialysis membrane, then fluid is removed?
Peritoneal dialysis
What is urethral orifice (meatus)?
The opening of the uretha to the exterior
What is treatment of renal failure?
Transplantation and Dialysis
What does the proximal convoluted tubule do?
Connects the bowman's capsule with the loop of Henle
What does CRF stand for?
chronic renal failure
What blood circulates through dialysis machine that allows diffusion of small ions and molecules across a membrane while the dialysis fluid on the other side keep important metabolites in circulation?
Hemodialysis
Expandable sac that holds urine