Exam 31: The Urinary System

The detrusor muscle is part of the ____.

The ________ arterioles bring blood to the tightly packed, increasingly narrow capillaries of the glomeruli.

Pyelonephritis begins ____.

The ____ use(s) a peristaltic action to take urine to the bladder.

The kidneys are ____ in position when compared to the peritoneal cavity.

Made up of the glomerulus surrounded by the Bowman's capsule, the ________ ________ is where blood filtration occurs.

The internal floor of the bladder contains three openings, one for the urethra and two for the ureters, that form a triangle called the ________ of the bladder.

Renal calculi could result from ____.

Number 5 on the figure of the kidney refers to the ________.

Which of these urinary diseases is likely to be treated with corticosteroids?

The wall of the bladder contains smooth muscle, called the _______ muscle, that contracts to push urine from the bladder into the urethra.

The ________ is a tube that moves urine from the bladder to the outside world.

Inside the kidney, the area where the renal artery, renal vein, and ureter enter is called the renal ________, which is formed by the expansion of the ureter inside the kidney.

The ________ is shown at number 4 on the figure.

During which process of urine formation do drugs and hydrogen ions enter the filtrate?

The ________ tubule is directly attached to the Bowman's capsule and eventually straightens out to become the loop of Henle.

The waste products formed by the breakdown of proteins and nucleic acids are ________ and uric acid.

The ________ is shown at number 6 on the figure of the kidney.

The ________ tubules extend from the Bowman's capsule of a nephron and have three parts: the proximal convoluted tubule, the loop of Henle, and the distal convoluted tubule.

An immune disorder is a possible cause for which disease?