Anatomy
When uric acid and calcium salts from the urine clump together.
What is a renal calculus?
Water is this much urine.
What is 95%?
No urine output.
What is Anuria?
Lack of voluntary control over urination.
What is Incontinence?
Blood in the urnine.
What is Hematuria?
Muscular sac that stores urine until it is ready to be emptied from the body.
what is the bladder?
Painful urination.
What is dysuria?
Inflammation of the Kidneys.
What is Nephritis?
Tube that carries urine out of the body
What is the Urethra?
Inflammation of the bladder.
What is Cystitis?
Structures in the kidneys where the blood is actually filtered and urine is formed.
What are nephrons?
Part of the kidney serves as a passageway for nerves and vessels to enter and leave.
What are hilum?
Sugar in the urine.
What is glycosuria?
Picks up materials filtered out of the blood and passes it to the convoluted tubules.
What is Bowman's Capsule?
Outer layer of the kidney that contains nephrons.
What is the Cortex?
Length of a male urethra.
What is 8 inches long?
Muscular tubes that use peristalsis to move the urine to the bladder.
What are Ureters?
Inability to empty the bladder.
What is Retention?
Length of a female urethra.
What is 1.5 inches long?
Collects the water and excess waste that become urine.
What are collecting tubules?