Anatomy

Question 1

Abdominal Aorta

Answer 1

Aorta runs from the heart through the center of the chest and belly area called the abdomen.

Question 2

Renal Pelvis

Answer 2

A hollow part in the middle of each kidney; a large cavity that collects the urine as it is produced.

Question 3

Urinary Bladder

Answer 3

A temporary storage reservoir for urine; located in the pelvis cavity.

Size and shape varies with amount of urine it has and pressure it receives from surrounding organs.

Question 4

Ureter

Answer 4

Connect kidneys to the urinary bladder, transporting urine from renal pelvis into the urinary bladder.

Question 5

Urethra

Answer 5

A tube that lets urine leave the bladder and the body.

Male: passes through the prostate and into the penis.

Female: Urethra is shorter, bladder to open in front of the vagina.

Question 6

Kidneys

Answer 6

Filter waste material out of the blood and pass them out of the body as urine; found on either side of the spine below the rib cage.

Question 7

Inferior Vena Cava

Answer 7

Carries deoxygenated blood from the lower and middle body into the right atrium of the heart;

Large vein.

Question 8

Renal Activity

Answer 8

Carry a large volume of blood from the heart to the kidneys; two renal arteries both left and right.

Question 9

Renal Vein

Answer 9

Blood vessels that return blood to the heart from the kidney;

Each kidney is drained by its own renal vein, each renal vein drains into a large vein called IVC, that carries blood directly to the heart.

Question 10

Urea

Answer 10

Urea nitrogen is a waste product made when the liver breaks down protein.

Carried in the blood and filtered out by the kidneys and removed from the body in the urine.

Question 11

Uric Acid

Answer 11

A normal body waste product.

Form when chemicals called purines break down.

Question 12

Creatinine

Answer 12

A chemical waste product of creatine.

Removed from the body entirely by kidneys.