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The Urinary System
The Kidney
Kidney Functions
Blood Flow
Urination
100
Pair of structures in the body that filter and secrete urine.
What are the kidneys?
100
The functional unit of the kidney.
What is the nephron?
100
One of the many functions of the kidneys.
What is blood filtration, maintenance of water balance, urine production, waste elimination, or homeostasis regulation?
100
Blood coming from the heart first goes through this large structure.
What is the aorta?
100
A smooth, collapsible, muscular sac that stores urine.
What is the bladder?
200
Another name for the urinary system, commonly used in physiology.
What is the renal system?
200
Number of kidneys necessary for survival.
What is one?
200
Kidney functional process in which water and solutes smaller than proteins are forced through the capillary walls.
What is filtration?
200
This structure is located between the afferent arteriole and efferent arteriole.
What is the glomerulus?
200
Another name for voiding, or the process of urination.
What is micturition?
300
Not including the kidneys, one of the other three organs of the urinary system.
What are the ureters, urinary bladder, or urethra?
300
The first destination for incoming blood in the kidneys.
What is the glomerulus?
300
The three main processes that take place as the kidneys form urine.
What is filtration, reabsorption, and secretion?
300
Percent of cardiac output directed toward the kidneys.
What is 20-25%?
300
What structure carries urine from the bladder and out of the body.
What is the urethra?
400
The renal pelvis is one of three regions of the kidney. These are the other two regions.
What are the renal cortex and the renal medulla?
400
The two main structures of the nephron.
What are the glomerulus and the renal tubule?
400
A nitrogenous-based waste product created by cell metabolism and excreted via the renal system.
What is urea?
400
The glomerulus is located within this cup-shaped structure.
What is the Bowman's capsule?
400
The age at which individuals gain voluntary control of the external sphincter.
What is 18 months?
500
This kidney is the lower of the two kidneys.
What is the right kidney?
500
Average number of nephrons per kidney.
What is 1 million?
500
In secretion, one of the two ions that moves back to the renal lumen.
What is H+ or K+?
500
The final or last structure into which blood flows after passing through the kidneys and moving back to the heart.
What is the inferior vena cava?
500
The urethra carries urine from the bladder by this process.
What is peristalsis?