Exam 18: The Urinary System

In the kidney, the calyces are part of the ____________________ and enclose the tips of the ____________________.

The stimulus for the urination reflex is stretching of the ____________________.

In the kidneys, the hormone that directly increases the reabsorption of water is ____________________.

The function of erythropoietin is to stimulate the ____________________ to increase the rate of ____________________.

A ureter extends from the ____________________ to the ____________________.

The nitrogenous waste product that comes from energy production in muscles is ____________________.

In the kidneys, active transport is the process for the reabsorption of:

In the kidney, the process of tubular reabsorption transports useful materials from the:

Urine flows through a ureter from the ____ to the ____.

The kidneys are ____ the peritoneum, and the term for this is ____.

The kidneys respond to increased acidity of the blood by excreting more ____________________ ions in order to ____________________ the pH of the blood.

The part of the CNS that is directly involved in the urination reflex is the ____________________.

A ____ takes urine from the kidney to the bladder, and the ____ takes urine from the bladder to the exterior.

The effector of the urination reflex is the ____________________, which ____________________.

Urine is formed from ____________________ by the ____________________ of the kidneys.

The renal artery takes blood from the:

The process of tubular secretion may include the nitrogenous waste product ____________________.

If the kidneys are decreasing their excretion of hydrogen ions, this means that the pH of the blood has been:

In women, the urinary bladder is ____ to the uterus within the ____ cavity.

In tubular reabsorption, glucose is reabsorbed by the process of ____________________.