Kidneys
Because of this the right kidney is slightly lower than the left.
What is the liver?
The pigment that gives urine its color.
What is urochrome?
The tissue makes up the bladder walls?
What is it transitional epithelium?
Tubes that go from the kidneys to the bladder.
What are the ureters?
Percent of the body that is made up of water.
What is 50%.
This part of the kidney makes urine.
What are nephrons?
The pH of urine?
What is 6.0?
The 3 openings inside the bladder called
What is a trigone?
The tube that carries urine to outside the body.
What is the urethra?
Acidosis and alkalosis.
What is the blood pH goes below 7.35 (acidosis) and above 7.45 (alkalosis)?
The fat capsule that holds the kidney to the dorsal wall?
What is the adipose (perirenal) capsule?
The 3 terms that indicate the passage of urine from the bladder.
What is urination, voiding and micturition?
The name of the muscle that makes up the bladder walls.
What is detrusor muscle?
The 2 valves that control the release of urine and a difference between them.
What are the external urethral sphincter (voluntary) and internal urethral sphincter (involuntary)?
What hormone prevents excess water loss?
What is ADH antidiuretic hormone?
The 3 regions of the kidney?
What are the renal cortex, renal medulla, and renal pelvis?
The 3 nitrogenous waste products.
What is urea, uric acid and creatinine?
4 things that are reabsorbed back into the body.
What are water, glucose, amino acids and ions?
2 differences between the male and female urethra?
What is the length and function (urine/sperm and just urine)?
3 things that can happen to people when they get older.
What is urgency, frequency and nocturia?
Name 2 of the 3 regulatory functions of the kidneys.
What is produce the enzyme renin, produce the hormone erythropoietin, and turn Vitamin D into its active form?
The 3 steps in urine formation.
What are filtration, reabsorption and secretion.
The 5 characteristics of urine.
What are color, sterile, odor, pH and specific gravity?
Who gets more UTI and why?
Who are females and because the urethra is shorter?
3 things eliminated by the urinary system.
What are nitrogenous waste, toxins and drugs?