Terms
Roles/Functions
Blood Vessels, Tubes & Ducts
(Oh My)
Drainage/Filtration
Miscellaneous
100
Ureter/o
What is the ureter?
100
Carries urine from kidney to bladder
What is the ureter?
100
Tube connecting bladder to the outside of body
What is the urethra?
100
Drugs that increase uribe formation
What are diuretics?
200
Medical term for kidney
What is nephr/o?
200
Expansion of ureter within the kidney at the hilus
What is the renal pelvis?
200
Deliever oxygenated blood to kidneys
What is the renal arteries?
200
Carry urine to storage site
What are the ureters?
200
Components of urine
What is water and waste products?
300
U/ro
What is urine/urinary tract?
300
Regulates water and salt content of blood, removes waste products and makes renin to help control blood pressure
What is are the kidneys?
300
Drain deoxygenated blood from the kidneys
What are the renal veins?
300
Temporarily store urine
What is the urinary bladder?
300
Consists of the kidneys, ureters, bladder and urethra
What is the urinary tract?
400
Cyst/o
What is bladder?
400
When vasoconstriction increases Aldosterone in which then increases BP is known as..
What is the aldosterone mechanism?
400
Contains proximal convulted tubule, Loop of Henle and distal convulted tube
What is the renal tubule?
400
Known as the filtering units within the kidneys, removes waste from blood, regulates water and electrolytes
What are nephrons?
400
Kidneys are located
What is retroperitoneally?
500
Medical term for renal pelvis
What is pyel/o?
500
Blood comes to the kidney by the ________ and leaves the kidney through the ________
What is afferent arteriole/efferent tubule?
500
Portion of nephron where filtration occurs
What is Bowman's (glomerular) capsule?
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