This tube carries urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder.
What is the Ureter?
100
Nephrons are mostly found here.
What is the Renal Cortex?
100
Filtration takes place here.
What are The Walls of the Capillaries?
100
Most of the nutrients in the filtrate are reabsorbed in this.
What is the Proximal Convoluted Tubule?
100
In forming urine, the kidneys use these 3 distinct processes.
What are 1) Filtration 2) Reabsorption & 3) Secretion
200
This is another name for the renal mdulla.
What are Renal Pyramids?
200
The renal corpuscle is made up of these two things.
What are the Glomerular (Bowman's) Capsule & the Glomerulus (capillary network)
200
Filtration occurs exclusively in the Renal Corpuscle, across this.
What is The Filtration Membrane?
200
In the distal convoluted tubule, a __________ is secreted for every sodium ion that is reabsorbed.
What is a Potassium Ion?
200
The collecting ducts are permeable to water when this hormone is present.
What is ADH?
300
This is the internal cavity within the kidney.
What is the Renal Sinus?
300
In Juxtamedullary Nephrons, the peritubular capillaries are connected to this.
What is the Vasa Recta?
300
There are 4 different types of Carrier-Mediated Transport. The name of which are.
What are 1) Facilitated Diffusion 2) Active Transport 3) Cotransport & 4) Countertransport
300
When glucose spills over into the urine it has exceeded its...
What is Transport Maximum?
300
This portion of the Nephron maintains the hypertonicity of the renal medulla.
What is the Loop of Henle?
400
This structure empties urine directly into the renal pelvis.
What is the Major Calyx?
400
The Renal Tubule consists of these three segments.
What is 1) The Proximal Convoluted Tubule 2) The Nephron Loop & 3) The Distal Convoluted Tubule
400
The Transport Maximum determines this; the plasma concentration at which a specific compound or ion begins to appear in the urine.
What is the Renal Threshold?
400
If your urine contains fewer potassium ions than your filtrate, then the potassium has been what?
What is Filtered and Reabsorbed?
400
The bladder is lined with this type of epithelium.
What is Transitional Epithelium?
500
These arteries radiate outward through the renal columns between the renal pyramids.
What are Interlobar Arteries?
500
Podcytes are part of this.
What is The Glomerular Capsule?
500
Plasma amino acid levels commonly exceed the renal threshold after you have eaten a protein rich meal, causing some amino acids to appear in your urine. This condition is termed what?
What is Aminoaciduria?
500
Which ions are actively transported out of the Loop of Henle?