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Chapter 6 Urinary
Question | Answer |
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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 |