Urinary

Question 1

Function of kidney

Answer 1

Filters blood

Question 2

Function of ureters

Answer 2

Transport urine

Question 3

Function of bladder

Answer 3

Expandable muscular sac, stores the urine

Question 4

Function of urethra

Answer 4

Eliminates urine from body

Question 5

Hilum function

Answer 5

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

Question 6

What are the two regions of functional tissue

Answer 6

Outer renal cortex and inner medulla

Question 7

What is renal sinus?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What are minor calyces?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

What is renal pelvis?

Answer 9

Formed from merged major calyces

Question 10

Functional anatomy of the kidney

Answer 10

Nephrons, collecting tubules, collecting ducts

Question 11

Nephron function

Answer 11

Microscopic functional filtration unit of kidney

Question 12

What does nephron consist of

Answer 12

Renal corpuscle and renal tubule

Question 13

What is the glomerulus?

Answer 13

A network of capillary’s and create filtrating

Question 14

Where does blood enter?

Answer 14

Afferent arteriole

Question 15

Where does blood exit?

Answer 15

Efferent arteriole

Question 16

What is visceral layer?

Answer 16

Internal permeable and directly overlies glomerular capillaries

Question 17

What is parietal layer?

Answer 17

External impermeable and simple squamous epithelium

Question 18

What is capsular space?

Answer 18

Between two layers, receives filtrate, modified to form urine

Question 19

What is vascular pole?

Answer 19

Afferent and efferent arterioles attach to glomerulus

Question 20

What is tubular role?

Answer 20

Origin of renal tubule