ANATOMY
This organ stores urine until it is ready to be excreted.
What is the bladder?
This is the first step in urine formation.
This hormone helps retain sodium and water in the kidneys.
What is aldosterone?
This common infection affects the bladder and causes dysuria.
What is a UTI?
Urine is typically made up of this percentage of water.
What is 95%?
These two tubes carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
What are the ureters?
This step involves moving substances back into the blood.
What is reabsorption?
This hormone increases water reabsorption in the distal tubules.
What is antidiuretic hormone (ADH)?
This kidney disorder causes inflammation and hematuria.
Each kidney contains about this many nephrons.
What is one million?
This part of the nephron surrounds the glomerulus.
What is Bowman's capsule?
This process removes substances from the blood into the tubule.
What is secretion?
This hormone is involved in regulating blood pressure.
What is renin?
This disorder causes protein leakage into urine.
What is nephrotic syndrome?
This term refers to blood in the urine.
What is hematuria?
What are nephrons?
This hormone helps concentrate urine by reabsorbing water.
This hormone triggers red blood cell production.
What is erythropoietin?
This progressive loss of kidney function is often due to diabetes.
What is chronic kidney disease?
This flap prevents urine from flowing back to the kidneys.
What is the ureterovesical junction?
This muscle in the bladder wall helps push out urine.
What is the detrusor muscle?
This structure in the nephron is where filtration occurs.
What is the glomerulus?
This vitamin is activated in the kidneys for calcium reabsorption.
What is vitamin D?
This condition is caused by prostate enlargement in older men.
What is BPH?
This term describes painful urination.
What is dysuria?