ch 7 urine null and void

Question 1

What is the main responsibility of urinary system?

Answer 1

removal of wastes from the body by constantly filtering

Question 2

The major waste product of protein metabolism is?

Answer 2

urea - filtered by the kidney and used in some diagnostic tests to determine health

Question 3

The stable environment in the body is?

Answer 3

homeostasis

Question 4

urin/o and ur/o is?

Answer 4

Urine or pertaining to urinary organs

Question 5

What part of the urinary system produces hormones and affects the secretory rates of other hormones?

Answer 5

Kidney

Question 6

What structures are in the normal urinary system?

Answer 6

a pair of kidneys, a pair of ureters, a single urinary bladder, and a single urethra

Question 7

Kidneys are located?

Answer 7

Retroperitoneally - means located behind the lining of the abdominal cavity or outside the peritoneal cavity

Question 8

One kidney sits where?

Answer 8

on each side of the vertebra column below the diaphragm

Question 9

Ren/o and nephr/o means?

Answer 9

Kidney

Question 10

Combining form ren/o= - what part of speech?

Answer 10

adjective - renal pelvis, renal disease

Question 11

Nephr/o = describes?

Answer 11

pathology and surgical (sx) procedures as in nephritis and nephrectomy

Question 12

What can affect the rate at which filtration takes place in the kidney?

Answer 12

Blood pressure

Question 13

Cortic/o?

Answer 13

outer region and is used to describe the outer region of many organs

Question 14

Medull/o?

Answer 14

Middle or inner portion and is used to describe the inner portion of many organs

Question 15

What contains the majority of the nephron?

Answer 15

Cortex

Question 16

What contains the most of the collecting tubles?

Answer 16

Medulla

Question 17

The functional unit of the kidney is?

Answer 17

nephron

Question 18

The nephron consists of?

Answer 18

glomerous, bowmans capsule,a proximal convoluted tubule, a loop of Henle, a distal convoluted tubule, and a collecting duct

Question 19

How do nephrons form urine?

Answer 19

By the process of filtration, reabsorption, and secretion

Question 20

Filtration occurs in the?

Answer 20

glomerous

Question 21

Reabsorption occurs in the?

Answer 21

proximal convoluted tubule, loop of Henle, and collecting tubule

Question 22

Secretion occurs in the?

Answer 22

Distal convoluted tubule