urinary system one

Question 1

what makes up the urinary system?

Answer 1

kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder, and urethra

Question 2

what makes up the urinary tract?

Answer 2

ureters, bladder, urethra

Question 3

what is the main function of the urinary system?

Answer 3

filter blood and transport the liquid waste (urine) out of the body

Question 4

what are kidneys responsible for?

Answer 4

filtering the blood and turning the filtrate into urine

Question 5

what does the urinary tract do?

Answer 5

transports the urine

Question 6

what is the process of releasing urine?

Answer 6

urination or micturition

Question 7

why does the blood need to be filtered?

Answer 7

waste products, pH levels, life sustaining

Question 8

removal from the blood

Answer 8

glomerular filtration

Question 9

recovery of things that the body still needs from the tube into the blood

Answer 9

tubular reabsorption

Question 10

transport of additional things that the body does not want/need from the blood into the tube

Answer 10

tubular secretion

Question 11

what is the external gross anatomy of the kidney?

Answer 11

on posterior abdominal wall
- right kidney more inferior than left because of the liver

Question 12

what is the internal gross anatomy of the kidney?

Answer 12

outer cortex, renal columns, inner medulla, renal pyramids, renal papillae, minor calyx, major calyx, and renal pelvis

Question 13

each renal pyramid drains urine into a ________________

Answer 13

minor calyx

Question 14

several minor calyces unite to form a ________________

Answer 14

major calyx

Question 15

major calyces drain into the ______________ which connects to the ureter

Answer 15

renal pelvis

Question 16

what is the blood supply of the kidneys?

Answer 16

renal artery, segmental arteries, interlobar arteries, arcuate arteries, interlobular arteries, afferent arterioles, glomerulus, efferent arteriole, peritubular capillaries, vasa recta, interlobular veins, arcuate veins, interlobar veins, renal vein

Question 17

receives blood from aorta

Answer 17

renal artery

Question 18

travel in the renal columns

Answer 18

interlobar arteries

Question 19

cortex-medulla junction

Answer 19

arcuate arteries and arcuate veins

Question 20

each afferent arteriole brings blood to a _____________

Answer 20

glomerulus

Question 21

a capillary “ball”
- blood is filtered here

Answer 21

glomerulus

Question 22

gas/nutrient exchange between kidney tissues and the blood occurs here

Answer 22

peritubular capillaries, vasa recta

Question 23

back to inferior vena cava

Answer 23

renal vein