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Urine Formation
Terminology
Urine and Hormones
Parts of the System
Abnormalities of the System
100
What are the three parts of urine formation?
Filtration, reabsorption, and secretion
100
What is voiding?
Urination
100
Where is AWH produced?
Walls of the atria
100
What is the structural/functional unit of the urinary system?
Nephron
100
What is polyuria?
Too much urine
200
What role does the loop of Henle play in urine formation?
Reabsorption
200
What does incontinence mean?
Unable to control bladder.
200
What happens when no ADH is present?
More water is absorbed or less is relented.
200
Reabsorption takes place in the _________.
PCT's and the Loop of Henle.
200
What is no urine in the system?
Anuria
300
Where does filtration take place?
In the renal corpuscle.
300
_______ is sugar in the urine
Glycosuria
300
What does aldosterone do?
Reabsorption
300
What structures are nephrons composed of?
Glomerulus, PCT's, Loop of Henle, DCT's, and the collecting ducts
300
What is a "Renal Calculi"?
Kidney stone
400
Where does glucose reabsorption occur?
In the proximal tubule
400
What are the sphincters of the urinary system?
Voluntary and involuntary
400
What hormone decreases the amount of urine formed?
ADH
400
Lystitis is a ________ infection.
Bladder
400
Define oliguria.
Little urine
500
What is the opposite of reabsorption?
Secretion
500
Describe urinary catheterization
An operation of sticking a tube down the urethra to the bladder to drain it.
500
Where is aldosterone produced?
The adrenal gland
500
What are the tubes leading to and from the bladder?
Ureters
500
What does a lithrotheripsy do?
Tank of water and ultrasound