Urinary System - Vocabulary

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  1. 3. Where reabsorption of sodium chloride occurs by active transport.(2 words)
  2. 9. A condition that is caused by poor secretion of aldosterone.(2 words)
  3. 12. Responsible for the reabsorption of molecules, and the wall of the tubule contains microvilli so that it increases the surface area.(3 words)
  4. 18. A tube that leads from the floor or bottom of the bladder to the exterior.
  5. 21. The main blood vessel that supplies blood to one of the kidneys and to the nearest adrenal gland and ureter.(2 words)
  6. 22. Where reabsorption of sodium ions occurs by diffusion.(2 words)
  7. 24. Afferent arterioles that deliver blood into a tuft of capillaries.
  8. 25. Triangular wedges of tissue.(2 words)
  9. 29. It helps recover nutrients, salts, and water from the fluid in the proximal and distal tubules, and it transports the materials into the peritubular capillaries so they can return to the bloodstream. (2 words)
  10. 30. Where blood goes through filtration and is modified into urine.
  11. 33. An organ that metabolizes products of the hemoglobin breakdown of red blood cells, which then excretes the products of the hemoglobin breakdown of bile pigments.
  12. 34. A characteristic of human urine that is clear or translucent and becomes cloudy when standing.
  13. 35. A capillary network that is formed after the remaining blood flows to the glomerulus and into the efferent arteriole.(2 words)
  14. 38. A yellowish, watery substance that is stored in the bladder of the body and discharges through the urethra.
  15. 39. A long duct that is channeled from the urine (pelvis). Tubular organs that extend from the kidneys to the urinary bladder.
  16. 40. A characteristic of human urine Developed ammonia on standing from the formation of ammonium compounds.
  17. 42. Where molecules are being transported from the cavity through the epithelial tubular cells and into the peritubular capillaries that surround the tubules.
  18. 44. An organ that excretes carbon dioxide and gives off some of the water.
  19. 47. A sagittal section through the kidney that reveals the outer region of the distinct region.
  20. 48. Are organic substances that result from the breakdown of fat molecules.(2 words)
  21. 49. A mechanism that is caused because the water is impermeable and is still resorbing sodium and chloride ions at the same time.(2 words)
  22. 51. A group of blood vessels that supply nephrons to many of the excretory systems.(2 words)
  23. 52. Where reabsorption of selective ions occurs in active transport, reabsorption of water occurs in osmosis under the influence of ADH; secretion of ammonia, certain ions, drugs, hormones, and other substances.(3 words)
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  1. 1. The capsule surrounding the glomerulus.(2 words)
  2. 2. Inward extensions of the cortex between the pyramids.(2 words)
  3. 4. Involuntary micturition.
  4. 5. The opening of the urethra to the external environment.(2 words)
  5. 6. A sagittal section through the kidney that reveals the deeper region of the distinct region.
  6. 7. The external structures of the kidney that include a concave notch on the medical surface.
  7. 8. The functional unit of the kidney and the structure in which iron forms.
  8. 10. When fluid enters the walls of the glomerular capsule.(2 words)
  9. 11. Where numerous minor calyces unite.(2 words)
  10. 13. Are attached to the posterior abdominal wall of the body outside the peritoneum.
  11. 14. A process where small dissolved substances, or solutes, move from the glomerular capillaries to the glomerular capsule.
  12. 15. Excretes molecules from the peritubular capillary into the nephron tubule, which modifies the ion amount and helps maintain blood hemostasis.(2 words)
  13. 16. Characteristics of the Human Urine Is acidic and becomes alkaline if large amounts of vegetables are eaten; stale urine has an alkaline reaction from decomposing the urea to ammonium compounds; and if you have a high protein diet, it increases acidity. Normal pH levels range from 4.6 to 8.0.
  14. 17. Excrete certain or specific salts (ex. iron, calcium salts, and release of water).
  15. 19. A hormone that controls the permeability of the cell membranes of cells in the collecting duct. (2 words)
  16. 20. Eliminates urine from the collecting duct into the renal pelvis and transports the urine to the ureters, then to the urinary bladder, then to the urethra, and finally gets it out of the body.
  17. 23. Where the each of the kidneys delivers its urine into a cavity (the renal pelvis). (2 words)
  18. 26. A process by which ATP is utilized as an energy source. (2 words)
  19. 27. It conducts blood out of the kidney.(2 words)
  20. 28. The process of urine expulsion.
  21. 31. The apex of each of the renal pyramids extends into a tiny cavity (minor calyx).(2 words)
  22. 32. An accessory organ that lies posterior to the pubic symphysis.Location where the ureter delivers urine.(2 words)
  23. 36. Is the extracellular fluids, which are the plasma and the tissue fluids.(2 words)
  24. 37. A nitrogenous waste product of the liver's metabolism.
  25. 41. A hormone that functions by regulating the kidneys and is secreted by the cortex of the adrenal glands.
  26. 43. It is an excretory organ where it excretes perspiration (ex. sweating).
  27. 45. Remains of the blood from the glomerular (Bowman’s) capsule that flows from the glomerulus.(2 words)
  28. 46. Where reabsorption of sodium ions, other ions, glucose, and amino acids occurs by active transport, reabsorption of water occurs by osmosis, and reabsorption of chloride ions occurs by diffusion.(2 words)
  29. 50. One of the most important pigments that is produced by bacterial action on bilirubin in the intestine.