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Urinary system Flashcards

1
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4 major organs of the urinary system

A

kidneys
ureters
urinary bladder
urethra

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2
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Where does water collect and stagnant?

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Trigony- depression in the bladder

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3
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Why is it easier for females to get bladder infections?

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shorter urethra; cystitis, UTI

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4
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What do kidneys do?

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  • filter blood
  • remove toxins/wastes from blood
  • buffer system pH of kidneys; narrow range
  • regulate bv/urine
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5
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Renin is the regulation of?

A

Blood pressure & kidney function

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6
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Erythropoitin regulates what?

A

RBC production

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7
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Where are the kidneys located?

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Retroperitoneal; superior lumbar region

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8
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Which kidney is lower/higher?

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right is lower than the left

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9
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What structures enter/exit the hilum?

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Blood vessels; renal vein/renal artery
Lymphatics
Nerves
Ureters

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10
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Superficial region with over 1 million renal corpuscles & is like a nephron

A

renal cortex

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11
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Triangular renal pyramids are separated by columns in this region

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renal medulla

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12
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Tip of the pyramid, releases urine into minor calyx

A

papilla

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13
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Renal pyramids are separated by

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renal columns

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14
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What moves through the columns?

A

Arteries & veins; blood

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15
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Where do the arteries/veins (blood) plug in to?

A

Nephrons

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16
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What are nephrons?

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Blood filters

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17
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How many nephrons per kidney?

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1.5 million

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18
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At the base of each pyramid, urine moves to the ‘cups’ called

A

minor calyx

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19
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What are major calyxes?

A

Branching channels of renal pelvis

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20
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What do major calyces do?

A

collect urine from minor calyces & empty urine into ureters

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21
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There a re millions of nephrons inside the

A

renal corpuscle

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22
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What two things make up the renal corpuscle?

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glomerulus & glomerular capsule

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23
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What kind of arteriole plugs into the glomerulus?

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Afferent arteriole

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24
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What kind of arteriole comes out of the glomerulus?

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Efferent arteriole

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25
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Why is blood pressure high in the glomerulus

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Afferent arterioles are smaller than efferent arterioles

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26
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The loop of henle is aka as the

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nephron loop

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27
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The descending loop of henle is ____ to water

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freely permeable

28
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The ascending loop of henle is ____ to water

A

impermeable

29
Q

Urine is delivered through the papillae to the

A 
minor calyx
major calyx
ureters
urinary bladder
urethra
& back into the water system
30
Q

Peritubular capillaries surround PCT & DCT of which kind of nephrons?

A

Cortical nephron

31
Q

____ arteriole in a cortical nephron plus into _____ capillaries

A

efferent

peritubular

32
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If it is a _____ nephron, it’ll go to the vasa recta & wrap around the loop of henle

A

Juxtamedullary

33
Q

3 ways of urine formation?

A

Glomerular filtration
Tubular Reabsoprtion
Tubular Secretion

34
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What is tubular reabsorption?

A

Take good stuff from the filtrate and put back into blood.

Leave nephron tubules and enter the blood either to peritubular capillaries or vasa recta.

35
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What is tubular secretion?

A

Put extra waste in nephron tubules to get rid of it as urine

36
Q

If you go through the cells, it’s what kind of mechanism?

A

trancellular

37
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If you go between the cells, it’s called what kind of mechanism?

A

paracellular

38
Q

What is GFR?

A

Glomerular Filtration Rate

Volume of filtration per minute ml/min

39
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What is NFP?

A

Net filtration pressure; responsible for filtration

40
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NFP formula

A

NFP= HPg-(OPg+HPc)
HPg- Hydrostatic glomerular pressure
OPg- Osmotic pressure
HPc- Hydrostatic capsular pressure

41
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HPg is

A

a pushing force and favors filtration

positive filtration factor

42
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OPg & HPc are

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opposing forces, and oppose filtration

negative filtration factors

43
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Where does reabsorption occur the most?

A

proximal convoluted tubule

44
Q

Name some examples that get reabsorbed

A 
NaCl
electrolytes
nutrients
AAs
H20
45
Q

What targets PCT to pull Calcium into the blood?

46
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What targets PCT to pull Sodium into the blood?

A

Aldosterone

47
Q

What targets the collecting duct to pull water out & put it back into the blood

48
Q

Examples of secreted wastes:

A

H+, K+, creatinine, NH4

49
Q

What gives urine its smell?

50
Q

How do the kidneys maintain osmolality? [particle balance]

A

countercurrent mechanisms

51
Q

What is a countercurrent mechanism?

A

Fluid flows in opposite directions, particles exchanged for osmolality

52
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Examples of countercurrent mechanisms?

A

loop of henle & vasa recta

53
Q

Urea moves between where and why?

A

from the collecting duct to the ascending loop of henle, it is recycled to maintain system’s osmolality

54
Q

What gives urine its color?

55
Q

Urine is slightly ____ when fresh

56
Q

What may cloudy urine indicate?

57
Q

The more urochrome you have, the more ____ your urine is

58
Q

The range of pH of urine is

59
Q

The specific gravity of urine is

A

1.001-1.035

60
Q

Urine is made up of mostly

61
Q

Nitrogenous wastes of urine

A

urea, uric acid, creatinine

62
Q

Renal calculi are

A

kidney stones that block ureter

63
Q

Males have a _____ gland & a _____ muscle for forceful release of urine.

A

prostate

detrusor

64
Q

The male’s urethra selectively carries both

A

urine & semen

65
Q

3 parts of a male’s urethra

A

prostatic
membranous
spongy

66
Q

Micturition is

A

urination and is part voluntary/involuntary

67
Q

Micturition reflex center is where & matures at what age

A

pontine; pons

age 2-3

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