Urine Trouble
Urine Luck
Urine my Thoughts
Urine in Good Hands
Shy Bladder
100
Two large muscles on either side of the vertebral column that cause the longitudinal plane of the kidneys to form a vertical angle of about 20 degrees with the MSP.
What is the two psoas major muscles?
100
The average length of adult kidneys.
What is 4 to 5 inches long?
100
This kidney is a little longer, but more narrow than the other kidney.
What is the left kidney?
100
When one inhales deeply, the kidneys normally drop this many inches.
What is 1 inch?
100
The urinary system is made up of these organs.
What is the two kidneys, two ureters, one bladder, and one urethra?
200
This kidney is generally slightly lower or more inferior than the other kidney because of the presence of the liver.
What is the right kidney?
200
Superior and medial to each kidney are these glands.
What are the suprarenal (adrenal) glands?
200
Each kidney is surrounded by this mass of fatty tissue.
What is the adipose capsule or perirenal fat?
200
This longitudinal fissure serves to transmit the renal artery, renal vein, lymphatics, nerves, and ureter.
What is the hilum?
200
This is the structural and functional unit of the kidney.
What is the microscopic nephron?
300
The anatomy labeled D.
What is the renal papilla?
300
The anatomy labeled H.
What is the renal pelvis?
300
The anatomy labeled A.
What is the minor calyx?
300
The anatomy labeled E.
What are the medulla (renal pyramids)?
300
The anatomy labeled I.
What is the major calyx?
400
The golmeruli, glomerular capsules, and proximal and distal confoluted tugules of the many nephrons are located with this area of the kidney.
What is the cortex?
400
The three constricted points of the ureters.
What are the ureteropelvic (UP) junction, brim of the pelvis, and the ureterovesical (UV) junction?
400
Range of the total capacity of the bladder.
What is 350 to 500 mL?
400
The average length of the female urethra.
What is 1 1/2 inches?
400
Radiographic examination of the urinary system.
What is excretory urography (IVU)?
500
The act of voiding or urination.
What is micturition?
500
A normal kidney that fails to ascend into the abdomen but remains in the pelvis.
What is ectopic kidney?
500
The hallmark urographic sign of chronic pyelonephritis.
What is patchy and blunted or rounded calyces?
500
Method used to enhance filling of the pelvicalyceal system and proximal ureters.
What is ureteric compression?
500
Procedure that is sometimes performed on the male patient to demonstrate the full length of the urethra.
What is retrograde urethrography?