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Hormone of Urinary System
Renal Vocabulary
Urinary A/P
Urinary Medical Terminology
Urinary A/P II
100
This is called the "Salt Hormone"
What is Aldosterone?
100
ANP and BNP cause excretion of sodium.
What is Natriuresis?
100
The functional unit of the urinary system.
What is Nephron?
100
Diminished capacity to form and pass urine.
What is Oliguria?
100
This triple-lobed organ is fused to based bladder.
What is Prostate gland?
200
This hormone is produced by the atria.
What is ANP?
200
Blood in the urine.
What is Hematuria?
200
This vessel delivers 20-25% of cardiac out put here.
What is the Rena artery?
200
Painful or difficult urination.
What is Dysuria?
200
This structure encapsulates the glomerulus.
What is Bowman's capsule?
300
This hormone is produced by the Ventricles of the heart.
What is BNP?
300
This function occurs when the pressure on one side of a membrane is greater than the pressure on the opposite side.
What is Filtration?
300
This is a temporary reservoir for urine.
What is the Bladder?
300
Retention of excessive amounts of nitrogenous compounds (urea, creatine, and uric acid) in the blood.
What is azotemia?
300
This vessel carries blood away from the glomerulus.
What is efferent arteriole?
400
This hormone is produced by the kidneys and triggers the production of red blood cells.
What is erythropoietin?
400
The presence of protein in the urine.
What is Proteinuria?
400
These two tubes originate in the renal pelvis.
What are Ureters?
400
Fixation of a floating or mobile kidney.
What is nephropexy?
400
Filtration, reabsorption, and secretion.
What is nephron physiology?
500
This hormone allows the kidneys to concentrate urine.
What is Antidiuretic hormone?
500
This enzyme is responsible for changing angiotensin I to angiotensin II.
What is Converting enzyme?
500
This structure stops urine from expelling from the urethra.
What is the external sphincter?
500
Incision of urethral stricture.
What is urethrotomy.
500
This area of the nephron connects the ascending and descending tubule.
What is the loop of Henle?