Diseases
The most common type of Urinary Disease
What are Urinary Tract Infections?
Primary function of the Urinary System
What are Filtering & Cleansing Blood?
What surrounds each kidney and helps hold it in place by maintaining pressure?
What are adipose capsules?
4 main Organs of the Urinary System
What are The Kidneys, The Ureters, The Urinary Bladder, and Urethra?
The function of this type of cell includes protecting the underlying tissues of the urinary tract.
What are Urothelium/transitional Epithelium cells?
The largest of the urothelial cell types
What are Umbrella Cells?
The part of the Urinary System that is not an organ, but a functional unit of the kidney.
What is the Nephron?
The layer of cells that lines the ureters.
What is transitional epithelium?
Slim tubes that are found behind the peritoneum from the renal hilus in the posterior part of the bladder.
What are the ureters?
The cell that plays an important role in the glomerular filtration barrier which filters blood.
What are Glomerular Endothelial cells?
They are highly specialized cells in the kidneys
What are podocytes?
This percent of your urine is made of water.
What is 95%?
People with shorter urethras are more likely to get UTI's (True / False)
What is True?
This disease can stop the flow of your urine if it gets big enough.
What are kidney stones?
What are principal cells?
Lines the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra
and
provides protective barrier in ureters and bladder
What are Epithelial tissue Tubules?
Stores urine produced by the kidneys
What is the bladder?
The millions of tiny structures in the kidney called
What are nephrons?
Function of a type of cell that is activated during injury or damage to the urothelium
What are Basal Cells?
The disease that consists of the following systems: Burning or stinging while urinating, urinating more frequently, abdominal pain, fever, nausea, vomiting
What are Urinary Tract Infections?