Function
What is the purpose of the bladder?
Hold the urine.
What affects urine volume?
Intake(oral), output(Urination).
What are the four major organs in the urinary system?
Kidneys 2, Ureters 2, bladder, and urethra.
What is one of the basic processes in urine formation?
Golmerular filtration, Tubular reabsorption, or tubular secretion.
What diseases is treated by lithotripsy?
Kidney Stones
What is the function of the ureters?
transport urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
If you find this in your urine you could have diabetes.
Glucose.
What is the inside part of the kidney that holds nephrons in it?
In tubular reabsorption there are 2 types, what are they?
Obligatory reabsorption, Facultative reabsorption.
What diseases is described as an excessive amount of urine?
Polyuria
What is the function of the urethra?
Remove urine.
What is in your urine if it is the color red? (Medical terminology)
Erythrocytes.
What are the fan like structures in the Kidney?
Pyramids
What out of the 2 arterioles brings blood away from the glomerulus?
Efferent arteriole
What is describe as inability to control urination?
Incontinence
What is responsible for the function regulating blood volume?
Nephrons.
What is it when you find Microbes in your urine?
Bacteria
What connects the kidneys to the ureters?
Renal pelvis.
What does the renal corpuscle do?
Filter blood
Which diseases in the urinary system is treated by antibiotics?
Glomerulonephritis
List all functions of the urinary system.
Regulates composition and volume of blood, eliminates waste, maintain blood pressure, helps metabolic processes, and helps regulate PH of blood.
What is found in your urine if you have a UTI?
Leukocytes.
List the outer layers of the kidney.
Renal capsule, adipose capsule, Renal fascia.
Describe the structure of a nephron in order.
Proximal convoluted tubule, descending limb, nephron (loop of Henle), ascending limb, distal convoluted tubule, collecting duct.
List all of the diseases
Kidney stones, Polyuria, renal failure, Urinary tract infection, Glomerulonephritis, and incontinence.