Urinary System Flashcards
Avians have renal pelvis, urinary bladder and urethra in the urinary system?
T OR F
F
those 3 are ABSENT in the avian’s urinary system
2 major functional subdivisions of the urinary system?
Urine producing organ and excretory passages
Pronephros, Mesonephros, Metanephros and Metanephrogenous tissue are parts of?
Embryonic urinary system
What are the parts of the adult urinary system?
Kidneys
Ureters
Urinary bladded
Urethra
Urinary system is from the LATERAL and SOMATIC mesoderm.
T OR F
F
Urinary system is from INTERMEDIATE and SOMATIC mesoderm.
Nephrogenic cord gives rise to pronephros, mesonephros and metanephros.
T OR F
TRUE
- First to appear
- in chick embryo at about 36 hours of incubation
- Excretory organ of some lowest
fishes.
Pronephros
Pronephric tubules connects wtih a common duct which is the?
Pronephric duct
Pronephric duct elongates and connects wtih the?
Cloaca
Pronephros degenerates upon
appearance of the
mesonephros.
T or F
TRUE
- Appears later than and caudal to the pronephros
-In chick embryo, it appears at about
55 hours of incubation
Mesonephros
Distal end of the tubule develops a double-walled cup-like
structure?
glomerular capsule
An artery from the dorsal aorta
pushes into the glomerular
capsule and breaks up into a tuft
of capillaries
Glomerulus
- Last to appear and most caudal in location (level of somites 26 to 28).
- Excretory organ of older embryos and adult birds and mammals.
Metanephros
Distal end of
metanephric
diverticulum forms the?
Renal pelvis
Slender stem of
metanephric
diverticulum forms the?
Ureter
In which animals are the major and minor calyces absent?
Horse and carnivores
Glomerular capsule + glomerulus?
Renal corpuscle
The metanephric tubule elongates further to form?
Nephron
Metanephrogenous tissue of intermediate mesoderm?
Kidney