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Chapter 6 Urinary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acid-Base Balance | Stable Concentration in body fluids |
| Bowman's Capsule | Cup-Shaped end of renal tuble |
| Collecting Tubles | Funnels urine into the papillary ducts in the renal pevis |
| Complete Fusion | rare anomaly that produces a single irregular mass that has no resemblance to a renal structure |
| Crossed Ectopia | Ectopic kidney located on teh same side as the normal kidney |
| Electrolyte Balance | Equilibrium of electrolytes in the body |
| Glomerulus | Tuft or cluster |
| Horseshoe Kidney | Fusion of the lower poles of the kidneys |
| Hydronephrosis | Distention of the pelvis and calyces of the kidney |
| Hydroureter | Dilation of the ureter |
| Hypernephroma | Most common renal call carcinoma |
| Hypoplastic kidney | Underdeveloped kidney |
| Incontinence | Loss of urinary bladder control |
| Intrathoracic Kidney | Kidney located in teh thoracic cavity |
| Loop of Henle | U-Shaped portion of the renal tuble |
| Micturate | Act of Urinating |
| Nephrocalcinosis | Calcium deposits within the substance of the kidney |
| Pelvic Kidney | Kidney located in the pelvis |
| Proximal convoluted tuble | Seound part of the nephron,first part of the renal tubule |
| Staghorn Calculus | Renal Calculi filling the entire renal pelvis of the kidney |
| Supernumerary kidney | an extra kidney |
| Trigone | Triangular area of the posterior bladder between the openings for the ureters and urethra |
| Unilateral renal agenesis | Absence of kidney |
| Uremia | Presence of excessive amounts of urea and nitrogen in the blood |
| Ureterocele | is a cystic dilatation of the distal ureter near its insertion into the bladder |