Urinary Elimination

Question 0

How do kidneys form urine

Answer 0

By removing wastes from the blood

Question 1

Urinary Elimination depends on the function of what?

Answer 1

Kidney, ureter, urethra, bladder

Question 2

What transport urine from the kidneys to the bladder

Answer 2

Ureters

Question 3

What does the nephron due

Answer 3

Forms the urine

Question 4

What is the capillary network of the glomerulus

Answer 4

The initial site of filtration of the blood and the beginning of urine formation

Question 5

Proteinuria

Answer 5

The presence of large proteins in the urine

Question 6

The presence of large proteins in the urine is a sign of what

Answer 6

glomrerular injury

Question 7

What is the normal adult urine output

Answer 7

1200 to 1500 ml/day

Question 8

If a patient has an output of less than 30 ml/hr this indicates

Answer 8

possible circulatory, blood volume, or renal alterations

Question 9

Erythropoietin

Answer 9

functions within the blood marrow to stimulate RBCs production and maturation

Question 10

A patient with chronic kidney conditions cannot produce sufficient quantities of ? so they are prone to?

Answer 10

Erythropoietin;

Anemia

Question 11

How do the kidneys affect calcium and phosphate regulation

Answer 11

by producing a substance that converts Vitamin D into its active form

Question 12

If your patient has chronic alterations in kidney function they are prone to

Answer 12

develop renal bone disease resulting from the demineralization of bone

Question 13

An obstruction within a ureter such as a kidney stone (renal calculus) results in?

Answer 13

strong peristaltic waves that attempt to move the obstruction into the bladder

Question 14

Renal colic

Answer 14

pain from strong peristaltic waves

Question 15

What stores and excretes urine

Answer 15

bladder

Question 16

What is a factor that protects the bladder against infection

Answer 16

pressure within it is usually low even when partly full

Question 17

A bladder in a pregnant woman

Answer 17

the fetus pushes against the bladder, reducing the capacity of the bladder and causing a feeling of fullness

Question 18

Trigone

Answer 18

the base of the bladder (triangle shaped)

Question 19

The openings at the three angles of the trigone

Answer 19

urethra, and ureters

Question 20

ureters

Answer 20

tubular structures that enter the urinary bladder

Question 21

how does urine exit the bladder

Answer 21

the urethra, and passes out the body through the urethra meatus

Question 22

When pelvic muscles are contracted it is possible for

Answer 22

urine to flow through the urethra

Question 23

External urethral sphincter

Answer 23

composed of skeletal muscles; permits voluntary flow of urine

Question 24

internal urethral sphincter

Answer 24

composed of smooth muscles; non voluntary flow of urine

Question 25

Why are women and girls predisposed to infection

Answer 25

the short length of the urethra; (1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches)

Question 26

urethra in men

Answer 26

Two functions;

1) a urinary canal
2) a passageway for cells and secretions from reproductive organs

Question 27

length of male urethra

Answer 27

8 inches long

Question 28

three sections of the male urethra

Answer 28

prostatic, membranous, and penile