Multiple Choice questions
What is Voiding?
a. Nitrogen Waste
b. Urination
c. Outer Section of the Kidney
d. Triangle area of the bladder
b. Urination
What is Sodium (NA+)?
Hollow, muscular sac that holds and stores urine
Urinary bladder
What is a kidney?
One of two bean-shaped organs that filter nitrogenous waste from the bloodstream to form urine
meat/o
opening or passage in the body.
What is Meatal stenosis?
a. Enlargement of an opening
b. Narrowing of the urethral opening o the outside of the body
c. Incision of an opening
d. Stoppage of blood flow to the kidney
b. Narrowing of the urethral opening o the outside of the body
What is an electrolyte?
Chemical element that carries an electrical charge when dissolved in water.
substance containing nitrogen and excreted in urine
Nitrogenous waste
An electrolyte regulated by the kidney
Potassium (K+)
cyst/o
bladder - Urinary bladder
A term that means no urine production is
a. Anuria
b. Diuresis
c. Micturition
d. Nocturia
a. Anuria
What is Arteriole?
Small artery
Nitrogenous waste product excreted in the urine
Uric Acid
Renal Vein
Blood vessel that carries blood away from the kidney
What is nephr/o?
kidney
a. Nocturia
b. Polyuria
c. Pus in the urine
d. Scanty Urination
d. Scanty Urination
What is Cortex?
Outer Region of an organ
Triangular area in the urinary bladder
Trigone
Blood vessel that carries blood to the kidney
Renal Artery
Glomerul/o
glomerulus - The part of the nephron that filters blood to form urine.
What is Uremia?
a. Dysuria
b. Hematuria
c. Azotemia
d. Cystitis
c. Azotemia
What is erythropoietin (EPO)
Hormone secreted by the kidney to stimulate production of red blood cells by bone marrow. Poietin means a substance that forms
Major nitrogenous waste excreted in urine
Urea
one of two tubes leading from the kidneys to the urinary bladder
Ureter
Vesic/o
Urinary bladder