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Exam #7: Urinary System Flashcards

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How many kidney do we have?

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2

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What are other systems that eliminate waste?

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  1. Digestion
  2. Urinary
  3. Respiratory
  4. Integumentary
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Ureters

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2

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How many urethras do we have?

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1

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Where are the kidneys located?

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In the retro peritoneal space

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What is the outer portion of the kidney?

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Cortex

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What is found in the nephrons, wastes products pass through a series of urine, collecting tubules and are transported before entering the renal pelvis?

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Calyces

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How many divisions are in the nephrons?

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  1. Vascular

2. Tubular

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What is the functional part of the kidney?

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Nephron

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What is an ENZYME that is released at the JG junction I’d blood pressure falls too low for effective glomerular filtration?

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Renin

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What PROTEIN is released in the kidney when blood pressure falls too low which causes vasoconstriction that raises blood pressure?

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Angiotensin

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What are small vessels that deliver blood TO the glomerulus?

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Afferent arteriole

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What’s the glomerulus + bowman capsule; filtration continuously takes place here?

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Renal corpuscle

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What carries blood to the peri tubular capillaries?

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Efferent artiole

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What is found in the nephrons and are a clusters

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Glomerulus

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15
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Where does water absorption begin?

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Proximal convoluted tubule

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What is a toxic condition caused by an excessive amount of urea to the waste products in the blood stream?

17
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What is the pigment that is responsible for urine color?

18
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What is 2 ways urine is moved from the kidney to the bladder?

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  1. Gravity

2. Peristalsis

19
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What are muscular tubes that convey urine from the kidney to

The bladder?

20
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What is another word for urination?

A

Micturation

21
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What is a surgical procedure that consists of surgical fixation of the urethra correct urinary stress incontinence?

A

Urethropexy

22
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What is the tube extending from the bladder to the outside of the bladder?

23
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What is an action also known as voiding that requires the coordinated contraction of the bladder muscle and sphincter relaxation?

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Micturation

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What is the a absence of urine?

25
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What is scanty amounts of urine?

26
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What prefix or suffix means stone or calculi?

A

-lith

Lith/o

27
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What is a bladder stone?

28
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What is the disorder characterized by the presence of stones within the kidney?

A

Nephrolithiasis

29
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What is an abnormal opening or tract between the bladder and vagina?

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Vesicovaginal fistula

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