Excretion
What organs make up the urinary system?
The three distinct regions of the kidney
What are the renal cortex, renal medulla and renal pelvis?
What is the first structure of urine making?
What is the glomerulus?
ADH stands for
What is Antidiuretic Hormone?
Accounting for roughly 95% of its total volume, this substance is the primary component of urine.
What is water?
The organs of secretion
what are the kidneys, lungs, skin and intestines?
What is high on the posterior wall of the abdominal cavity, behind the parietal peritoneum?
This vessel leaves the filtering capillaries
What is the efferent arteriole?
Parathyroid hormone regulates what two electrolytes
What is Calcium and Phosphate?
While urine is mostly water, this nitrogenous waste product formed in the liver is the main solid substance found in it.
What is urea?
The substances excreted by the kidneys
what are waste products, electrolytes and water?
The part of the kidney contains most of the nephrons
What are the renal pyramids?
The tubular structures in the nephron
What are the proximal convoluted tubule, loop of Henle, distal convoluted tubule, and the collecting duct?
The hormone Brain Natriuretic Protein is secreted from
What are the heart ventricles?
Along with water and urea, this electrolyte is a major inorganic component of urine, with its amount varying based on dietary intake
What is sodium chloride (salt)?
This organ stores liquid waste until it leaves the body
What is the bladder?
the main functions of the kidney
what is blood filtration, waste removal and maintaining fluid and electrolytes?
This value represents the proportion of dissolved particles in a solution, ranging from 0% to 100%
What is solute concentration?
Not related to stress, what other hormone is secreted by the adrenal cortex
Dehydration leads to an increase in solutes resulting in an increase of
what is urinary specific gravity?
These three processes together create final liquid waste
What are filtration, reabsorption, and secretion?
This section of the tubule helps create concentrated liquid waste.
What is the Loop of Henle?
Three steps of urine formation
what is glomerular filtration, tubular reabsorption and tubular secretion?
ANP (Atrial Natriuretic Peptide) is secreted by the hearts atria, what triggers this secretion
What is an increase in blood volume?
The light yellow color of urine is caused by this pigment
What is Urochrome?