What is responsible for removing certain wastes and excess water from the body and for maintaining the body's acid-base balance
100
Cortex and Medulla
What are the regions of the kidney?
100
Renal capsule
What is the transparent smooth membrane clinging to the kidney's surface?
100
Short length of urethra
What is the reason women have more urinary tract infections than males?
100
A kidney infection due to a bacterial infection
What is a UTI?
200
Urethra
What is the tube that carries the urine from the bladder to the outside
200
5 to 11 per kidney
What is the lobes can a kidney have?
200
Cortex
What is the portion of kidney containing the bulk of the nephron structures?
200
Feeling an unusual need to urinate more often
What is urgency?
200
To get rid of waste, produce hormones, and make glucose
What are the functions of the kidneys?
300
Uterers
What is two muscular tubes about 10 to 12 inches long. extends from from the renal pelvis of each kindney to the bladder
300
Uriniferous tubule
What is the main structural and functional unit for forming urine?
300
Cortex
What is the superficial region of kidney tissue?
300
The need to get up in the night to urinate
What is nocturia?
300
Calcitriol and erythropoietin
What are the hormones produced by kidneys?
400
Hilum
What is indented area through which the ureter , nerves, blood vessels, and lymph vessels enter and leave the kidney
400
Nephrons
What are the joins that form papillary ducts?
400
Renal column
What is an area of the cortex like tissue running between medullary pyramid?
400
Uric acid
What is released when nucleic acids are metabolized?
400
The production of glucose in kidney from glutamine
What is gluconeogenesis?
500
Bowman's capsule
What is a c-shaped structure that surround the glomerulus and is the start of the convulated tubule; picks up materials filtered from the blood in the tubule
500
Conserve body fluids and empty them into calices
What is the most important role of the collecting ducts?