Urinary

Question 1

Kidney

Answer 1

-fliter blood at nephrons
-retroperitoneal in the thoratic lumbar rigion (T10-L3)
-Right is always a little lower than the left due to the liver

Question 2

where does … occur? how?

filtration

Answer 2

in glomerulus
-large macromelecules & cells not filtered return to circulation
-water, solutes, & nitrogenous waste products flow into urine

Question 3

reabsorption

Answer 3

products brought into peritublar capillaries from nephron tubules

Question 4

Proximal Convoluted Tubule (PCT)

reabsorption

Answer 4

H2O, electrolytes, glucose, amino adis, HCO3- are reaborbed

Question 5

Decending limb of loop

Answer 5

H2O is reabsorbed

Question 6

Ascending Limb of Loop

Answer 6

NaCL is reabsorbed

Question 7

Distal Convoluted Tubules (DCT)

what is reabsorbed and what hormone controls it

Answer 7

H2O (ADH), NaCl (Aldosterone), Ca2+ (PTH)

Question 8

Collecting Tubule

what is reabsorbed and what hormone controls it

Answer 8

H2O (ADH)

Question 9

Secretion

Answer 9

products from circulation brough into nephron tubules

Question 10

Proximal Convoluted Tubule (PCT)

Secretion

Answer 10

urea, toxins, drugs

Question 11

Distal Convolute Tubule (DCT)

secretion

Answer 11

K+, H+

Question 12

ureters

Answer 12

exit the kidney and take urine to the urinary bladder

Question 13

urinary bladder

Answer 13

-where urine is stored until it is excreated
-exits the body through the urethra

Question 14

urethra

Answer 14

the tube that carrys urine out of the body
-males are long and have three parts, prostatic, membranous, and spongie (helps prevent UTI)
-females are smaller (increases risk of UTI)