Urinary System

Question 1

Which kidney lies at a more superior level?

Answer 1

Left kidney

Question 2

Why the right kidney lie at a more inferior level than the left?

Answer 2

Due to the liver

Question 3

On what rib level do the kidneys lie?

Answer 3

T12/L3

Question 4

On what rib level does the left kidney lie

Answer 4

11 and 12

Question 5

Where can perinephric fat be found?

Answer 5

Between the renal capsule and renal fascia

Question 6

What is the function of perinephric fat?

Answer 6

To protect and cushion the kidney

Question 7

Where can parinephric fat be found?

Answer 7

Superficial to the kindey

Question 8

What organs are found on the anterior surface of the right kidney?

Answer 8

liver, ascending colon, right colic flexure, right suprarenal gland

Question 9

What organs are found on the anterior surface of the left kidney?

Answer 9

spleen, pancreas, stomach, left colic flexure, descending colon

Question 10

What organ lies posteriorly to the kidneys?

Answer 10

The diaphragm

Question 11

In what region of the kidney are the renal corpuscles found?

Answer 11

Cortex of nephrons

Question 12

How can you distinguish left from right kidney?

Answer 12

The ureter lies most posteriorly. Renal vein lies most anteriorly. From there you can work out anterior and posterior and therefore left and right.

Question 13

What structures form the uteric pelvis

Answer 13

minor caylces drain into the mayor caylces and into the renal pelvis and then the uteric pelvis.

Question 14

What do renal veins flow into?

Answer 14

Inferior vena cava

Question 15

Where does the left gonadal vein drain into?

Answer 15

Left renal vein

Question 16

Where does the right gonadal vein drain into?

Answer 16

Inferior vena cava

Question 17

When looking at a kidney hilum, what is the most anterior structure that runs into it?

Answer 17

The renal vein

Question 18

How can you distinguish between right and left kidneys?

Answer 18

The ureter is always most posterior and points down towards the bladder.

Question 19

At what vertebra level does the left renal artery drain from the descending aorta?

Answer 19

L1/L2

Question 20

Where do the adrenal glands lie in relation to the kindeys?

Answer 20

Supramedially

Question 21

When you open the kidney to see its internal structures, along which plane do you slice it?

Answer 21

Longitudinally

Question 22

Where does the main vessel leading from the adrenal glands drain into?

Answer 22

Renal vein

Question 23

Where do the small adrenal arteries drain from?

Answer 23

Descending aorta

Question 24

When looking at a bisected kidney, what kind of fat do you expect has been taken off it?

Answer 24

Perinephric fat

Question 25

At what vertebra levels do the kidneys lie?

Answer 25

T12 - L3

Question 26

What two muscles do the kidneys lie on?

Answer 26

psoas muscle and quadratus lumbar muscle

Question 27

What are the three nerves of the posterior abdominal wall?

Answer 27

subcostal, iliohypogastric and ilioinguinal

Question 28

Where does the subcostal nerve originate from?

Answer 28

T12

Question 29

Where do the ilioinguinal and the iliohypogastric nerve originate from?

Answer 29

L1

Question 30

What type of nerves are the posterior abdominal wall nerves?

Answer 30

somatic

Question 31

What muscle does the uterer pass over?

Answer 31

psoas major