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Kidney Vocab
Anatomy Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Urinary System | the paired ureters and the single urinary bladder and urethra |
Kidneys | small, dark red organs with a kidney-bean shape |
Hydronephrosis | When urine that can no longer pass through the ureters backs up and exerts pressure on the kidney tissue; can severely damage the kidney |
Renal Artery | the arterial supply of each kidney |
Nephrons | the structural and functional units of the kidneys and, as such, are responsible for forming urine |
Renal Corpuscle | consists of a glomerulus and a cup-shaped hollow structure that completely surrounds 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, extends from the glomerular capsule |
Collecting ducts | receives urine from many nephrons, run downward through the medullary pyramids, giving the pyramids a striped appearance |
Glomerular Filtration | 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 |
Anuria | failure of the kidneys to produce urine |