Sectional Anatomy
The outer layer of the kidney, contains nephrons and blood vessels
What is Renal cortex
The kidney layer that contains pyramids and columns
What is the renal medulla
The renal corpuscle consists of the following two structures
What is the glomerulus and glomerular capsule
This structure is a tangle of capillary loops
What is glomerulus
The kidneys are located in the __________________?
What is the retroperitoneal space
This renal anatomy has a corticomedullary base and a renal papilla apex
What is renal medulla
This kidney layer contains the loop of the cortical nephron
What is the renal medulla
The term for where afferent and efferent arterioles attach to the glomerulus
What is vascular pole
This term is where the cortex and the medulla meet
What is corticomedullary junction
The functional filtration unit of the kidney is the ___________ .
What is the nephron
The renal papilla drains into this structure
What is the minor calyx
The major calyx drains into which structure
What is the renal pelvis
The renal corpuscle is contained in renal cortex or renal medulla?
What is renal cortex
The transition from the DCT to the collecting duct is called the _____________ .
What is collecting tubule
The right kidney is located between which two vertebral levels?
What is T12 - L3
The ureter drains into which structure of the urinary system
What is the urinary bladder
These two tissue layers of the kidney support and cushion the kidney ___________, ______________.
The outermost layer is the _____________ fat layer.
perinephric fat, paranephric fat
paranephric fat
The PCT, nephron loop and DCT make up which structure?
What is renal tubule
This process produces the filtrate the enters the glomerular capsule and then enters the nephron tubule
What is glomerular filtration
State the terms (3) of the fluid throughout the urinary process and at which site the term changes
Filtrate at capsular space
Tubular fluid beginning at PCT
Urine at collecting duct, medullary
This tissue layer is adhered directly to the external surface of the kidney
What is the fibrous capsule
The kidney tissue layer that anchors the kidney to surrounding structures is the
What is renal fascia
Name the substances reabsorbed at the PCT
What is Na+, K+, Cl-, Ca2+, Mg2+, HCO3-, H20, amino acids, urea, *glucose
Name the substances secreted at the collecting duct.
What is H+, drugs, NH4+
The process in which substances are thrown back into the renal bloodstream is known as _____________.
The process in which substances diffuse into the renal tubule from the renal bloodstream is known as ________________.
What is tubular reabsorption
What is tubular secretion