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Kidney Vocab.
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Urinary System | the paired ureters and the single urinary bladder and urethra, provide temporary storage reservoirs for urine or serve as transportation channels to carry it from one body region to another. |
| Kidneys | are located in the lower back, this is not their location. |
| Hydronephrosis | urine that can no longer pass through the ureters backs up and exerts pressure on the kidney tissue. |
| Renal Artery | the arterial supply of each kidney. |
| Nephrons | the structural and functional units of the kidneys and, as such, are responsibles for forming urine. |
| Renal Corpuscle | consist of glomerulus, which is a knot of capillaries, and a cup shaped hollow structure that completely surround the glomerulus like a well-worn baseball glove encloses a ball. |
| Renal Tubule | makes up the rest of the nephron, is about 3 cm long. |
| Collecting ducts | each of which receives urine from man nephrons, run downward through the medullary pyramids, giving the pyramids a striped appearance. |
| Glomerular Filtration | a nonselective, passive process in which fluid passes from the blood into the glomerular capsule part of the renal tubule. |
| Oliguria | an abnormally low urinary output that is between qpp to 400 ml/day. |
| Anuria | it is a less than 100 ml/day, usually indicates that glomerular blood pressure is too low to cause filtration, but it may also result from transfusion reactions and acute inflammation or from crush injuries of the kidneys. |
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Donaldo Rodriguez
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