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Anatomy
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nephr/o
What combining form means kidney?
100
the structural unit of the kidney
What is a nephron?
100
carries blood to the kidney
What is the renal artery?
100
location of the kidneys
What is retroperitoneal?
100
olig
What is scanty?
200
urin/o
What combining form means pertaining to urine?
200
carries urine from the kidney to the bladder
What are the ureters?
200
filtered blood is carried away from the kidney by this
What is the renal vein?
200
outer region of the kidney
What is the renal cortex?
200
glomerul/o
What is glomerulus?
300
-uria
What suffix means urination or relating to urine?
300
urine is collected here before it enters the ureters
What is the renal pelvis?
300
series of wave-like contrations that moves urine down each ureter
What is peristalsis?
300
inner region of the kidney
What is renal medulla?
300
renal pelvis
What is pyel/o?
400
lith/o
What combining form means stone or calculus?
400
carries urine from the bladder to the outside of the body
What is the urethra?
400
the unit in the kidney responsible for filtration, reabsorption, and secretion
What is the nephron?
400
cluster of capillaries in the nephron
What is the glomerulus?
400
loosening, destruction
What is -lysis?
500
-ectasis
What suffix means enlargement or stretching?
500
the external opening of a passage such as the urethra
What is a meatus?
500
purpose of rugae in the bladder
What is expansion of the urinary bladder?
500
part of the nephron that moves waste products that have been filtered from the blood to the renal pelvis
What are the collecting tubules? - proximal convoluted-descending limb of the Loop of Henle, ascending limb of the Loop of Henle, and the distal convoluted tubules
500
stretching, enlargement, dilation
What is -ectasis?