Kidneys
Parts of the Urinary System
Urinary System 101
100
What are the functional (working) units of the kidneys?
The nephrons.
100

We filter blood and form urine.

What are the kidneys. 

100

This is the process of urination and involves contraction of the urinary bladder wall.

What is micturition.

200

Where are the kidneys located?

what is retroperitoneal (behind the parietal peritoneum).

200

I am a hollow, muscular organ that collects and stores urine.

What is the urinary bladder?

200

Parts of nephron affected by ADH. 

What are the distal tubules and collecting ducts?

300

Kidneys secrete this hormone, which stimulates red blood cell production. 

What is Erythropoietin?

300
I go from the urinary bladder to the outside world.
What is the Urethra?
300

This is where salt and water are reabsorbed.

What is the proximal tubule?

400

What are the four functions of the kidneys?

getting rid of wastes, filtering blood, reabsorption, and formation of urine

400
We carry urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder.
What are the ureters?
400

These should NOT be in normal/healthy urine. 

What is glucose, proteins, ketones, RBCs, WBCs, Bile.