EXCRETION
The eliminate nitrogenous waste, water, electrolytes, toxins, and drugs...
What are kidneys?
Reddish-brown, beanlike structure enclosed in a tough fibrous tissue...
What is the kidney?
The functional unit, or urine-making unit, of the kidney...
What is the nephron unit?
A sterile fluid composed mostly of water (95%), nitrogen-containing waste, and electrolyles...
What is urine?
These structures of the urinary system function as plumbing, and form the urinary tract...
What is ureters, urinary bladder, and urethra?
The renal medulla forms striped cone-shaped regions called...
What is renal pyramids?
These are the most important excretory organs...
What are kidneys?
These collect urine formed in the kidney...
What is calyces?
Each nephron has two parts...
What are tubular components (renal tubules) and vascular component (blood vessels)?
This term refers to a urine output of less than 400mL/day...
What is oliguria?
Urine moves along the ureters from the kidneys to the bladder in response to...
What is gravity and peristalsis?
Water and dissolved substances filtered into Bowman's capsule are called...
What is glomerular filtrate?
Two kidneys, two ureters, one bladder, one urethra...
What are the major organs of the urinary system?
The indentation of the bean shaped kidney is called...
What is the hilus?
This contains a descending and ascending limb...
What is the loop of Henle?
Uremia may be prevented with the use of an artificial kidney, a form of...
Dialysis
Four layers make up the urinary bladder...
What is mucus membranes, submucosa, muscle, and serosa?
Urination is also called...
What is micturition?
This makes urine, temporarily stores it, and finally eliminates it from the body...
What is the urinary system?
The kidneys are cushioned and protected by...
What is renal fascia, adipose tissue pads, and lower rib cage?
The three processes involved in the formation of urine...
What is glomerular filtration, tubular reabsorption, and tubular secretion?
This can often be detected by the rotten odor of urine...
What is a bladder infection?
The female urethra is __ inches long...
The male urethra is __ inches long...
1.5 , 8
Renal calculus or nephrolithiasis...
What is kidney stones?
These two terms both refer to the study of kidney function...
What is renal physiology and nephrology?
A kidney has three distinct regions...
What are the renal cortex, renal medulla, and renal pelvis?
Tubular Secretion involves the active transport of...
Potassium ions (k+), hydrogen ions (H+), uric acid, ammonium ions (NH4+), and drugs?
The light-yellow color of urine is caused by a pigment called...
What is urochrome?
The detrusor muscle of the urinary bladder and the internal sphincter have ________ receptors...
Muscarinic
Also called ATN, it is a consequence of renal tubular damage...
What is acute tubular necrosis?