anatomy
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| Urinary System | system primarily responsible for water, electrolyte, and acid-base balance and the removal of nitrogen-containing wastes from the blood
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| Kidneys | small, dark, red organs with a kidney-bean shape lie against the dorsal body wall
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| Hydronephrosis | urine that can no longer pass through the ureters backs up and exerts pressure on kidney tissue
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| Renal Artery | the arterial supply of each kidney
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| Nephrons | the structural and functional units of the kidneys and, as such, are responsible for forming urine
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| Renal Corpuscle | consists of a glomerulus, which is a knot of capillaries, and a cup-shaped hollow structure that completely surrounds the glomerulus like a well-worn baseball glove enclose a ball
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| Renal Tubule | makes up the rest of the nephron, is about 3 cm lon
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| Collecting ducts | receive urine from many nephrons, run downward through the medullary pyramids, giving the pyramids a striped appearance
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| Glomerular Filtration | water and solutes smaller than proteins are forced through the capillary walls and pores of the glomerular capsule into the renal tubule
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| Oliguria | an abnormally low urinary output
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| Anuria | if it is less than 100 ml/day
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