Urinary - Whole Lab

Question 1

The Kidneys

……. ……….. maintains homeostasis by blood filtration

Answer 1

renal corpuscle

Question 2

what does the ureter do?

Answer 2

carries urine from kidney to urinary bladder

Question 3

what does the urethra do?

Answer 3

carries urine from bladder to outside the body

Question 4

at what vertebral level does the transpyloric plane lie?

Answer 4

L1

Question 5

what kidney is lower down? why??

Answer 5

right

the liver

Question 6

what are the three posterior relations (muscles) of the kidney?

Answer 6

psoas major

diaphragm

quadratus lumborum

Question 7

what structures make contact with the right kidney?

Answer 7

suprarenal glands

liver

duodenum

colon

jejenum

Question 8

what structures make contact with the left kidney?

Answer 8

suprarenal gland

stomach

spleen

pancreas

area for small bowel

left colonic flexure

Question 9

what is the nerve supply to the kidneys?

sympathetic

Answer 9

sympathetic nerves (T12-L1)

pass through the ceoliac ganglia along renal artery to the organ

Question 10

what is the nerve supply to the kidneys?

parasympathetic

Answer 10

from vagus nerve

Question 11

what is the lymphatic drainage of the kidneys?

Answer 11

para-aortic lymph nodes

around the origin of the renal arteries

Question 12

at what vertebral level are the paired renal arteries given off from the abdominal aorta?

Answer 12

L1

Question 13

identify a vein that travels up from the pelvis to drain into the left renal vein

Answer 13

left gonadal vein

Question 14

the uerter commences as a dilatation called the …… …….., which lies posterior to the renal vessels, and as it descends it lies on the …… ……… muscle.

Answer 14

renal pelvis

psoas major

Question 15

the ureter crosses anterior to the bifurcation of the common ……… ………., courses along the lateral wall of the pelvis, and turns medially to reach the ………..

Answer 15

iliac artery

bladder

Question 16

in the male, the ductus ….. …… crosses the ureter superiorly

Answer 16

vas deferens

Question 17

in the female, the ……. artery crosses the ureter superiorly

Answer 17

ovarian

Question 18

what are the three constrictions in the ureters where calculi (stones) may lodge?

Answer 18

inferior renal pole (abdomen)

testicular/ovarian vessels

where it transverses the bladder wall

Question 19

on which part of the bladder does the ureter enter?

Answer 19

vesicoureteric junction

Question 20

what is the medial umbilical ligament an embryological remnant of?

Answer 20

allantois

embryonic urachus

Question 21

what kind of epithelium lines the urinary bladder and ureter?

Answer 21

transitional

Question 22

what is the advantage of having transitional epithelium in the urinary bladder and ureter?

Answer 22

it can contract/ expand in order to adapt to distension

Question 23

what is the urethra?

Answer 23

tube that arises from the inferior part of the urinary bladder and caries urine from the bladder to the exterior

Question 24

what muscle does the ureter lie on?

Answer 24

psoas major

Question 25

what makes up the renal fascia of the kidney?

Answer 25

fibrofatty tissue

Question 26

what is the predominant tissue type that makes up the urinary bladder?

Answer 26

smooth muscle

Question 27

floor of the bladder is also often known as the…… of the bladder

Answer 27

trigone

Question 28

name a tubular structure that passes immediately anterior to the ureter?

Answer 28

vas deferens

ovarian artery

uternine artery

Question 29

what embryological structure gives the ureter?

Answer 29

ureteric bud

Question 30

kidney lies on what plane?

Answer 30

transpyloric