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1
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Function of kidney

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Filters blood

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Function of ureters

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Transport urine

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3
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Function of bladder

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Expandable muscular sac, stores the urine

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Function of urethra

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Eliminates urine from body

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5
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Hilum function

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Where vessels, nerves, ureter connect to kidney (things come in and go out)

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6
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Where is hilum located?

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Concave medial border

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What are the two regions of functional tissue

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Outer renal cortex and inner medulla

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What are the renal columns?

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Extension of cortex projecting into the medulla

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Where is the renal pyramid?

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Portion of medulla divided by renal columns

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Renal lobe components

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Renal pyramid and portions of adjacent renal columns

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What is renal sinus?

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Medially located urine drainage area and contains minor calyces, major calyces, renal pelvis

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What are minor calyces?

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Funnel-shaped structures of renal pyramid and merge to form major calyx

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13
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What is renal pelvis?

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Formed from merged major calyces

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14
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Functional anatomy of the kidney

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Nephrons, collecting tubules, collecting ducts

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15
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Nephron function

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Microscopic functional filtration unit of kidney

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16
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What does nephron consist of

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Renal corpuscle and renal tubule

17
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What is renal corpuscle?

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Enlarged bulbous region of nephron within renal

18
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What are the two structures of renal corpuscle?

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glomerulus and glomerular capsule

19
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What is the glomerulus?

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A network of capillary’s and create filtrating

20
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Where does blood enter?

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Afferent arteriole

21
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Where does blood exit?

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Efferent arteriole

22
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What is visceral layer?

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Internal permeable and directly overlies glomerular capillaries

23
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What is parietal layer?

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External impermeable and simple squamous epithelium

24
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What is capsular space?

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Between two layers, receives filtrate, modified to form urine

25
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What is vascular pole?

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Afferent and efferent arterioles attach to glomerulus

26
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What is tubular role?

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Origin of renal tubule

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