Foundational Kidney
Basic organ of the GU system
What is the kidney?
The lighter outer portion of the kidney.
What is the renal cortex?
Ball of capillaries.
What is the glomerulus?
Correct medical term for a bladder infection.
What is cystitis?
The organ that makes insulin.
What is the pancreas?
The main function of the kidney.
What is to filter blood?
The middle of the kidney (darker portion).
What is the renal medulla?
The 3 parts that make up the renal tubule.
What is the proximal convoluted tubule, loop of Henle and distal convoluted tubule?
Correct medical term for a kidney infection.
What is pylonephritis?
The hormone that regulates glucose in the blood.
What is insulin?
The vitamin that the kidney converts to its active form.
What is Vitamin D?
The deepest part of the kidney.
What is the renal pelvis?
The 4 parts that make up the renal corpuscle.
What is the afferent arteriole, efferent arteriole, glomerulus, and Bowman's capsule?
Correct medical term for kidney stones.
What is nephrolithiasis?
The type of diabetes that occurs often in childhood due to an autoimmune disorder.
What is type 1?
Tube that connects the kidney to the bladder.
What is the ureter?
These are the sections in the renal medulla.
What are renal pyramids?
The 3 steps in the urine formation process.
What are filtration, reabsorption, and secretion?
Using ultrasonic waves to break up kidney stones.
What is a lithotripsy?
This type of diabetes only occurs when a woman is pregnant and the cure is delivery of the baby.
What is gestational?
The 3 other name for "to urinate".
What is urine excretion, micturition, and voiding?
This vessel brings blood TO the kidney and this vessel brings blood OUT of the kidney.
What is the renal artery and renal vein?
The fluid that passes through the glomerulus into Bowman's capsule.
What is filtrate?
What is diuresis, hematuria, anuria, dysuria, and polyuria?
3 most common symptoms of diabetes.
What is polyuria, polyphagia, and polydipsia?