Exam 16: The Urinary System

A patient has a tumor that causes her to secrete an excess amount of antidiuretic hormone (ADH).You would expect that the excessive level of ADH will ultimately cause ________.

Substances such as alcohol that promote the formation of urine are known as ________.

Suppose that your roommate is on a 48-hour fast for food and drink.This means that she has no nutrients or liquids entering her system.What would happen to her blood pressure and why? What hormones would be triggered by the lack of incoming liquids? Explain how these hormones work and what the end result would be concerning her blood pressure and urine volume.

Filtrate moves from the space within the glomerular capsule to ________,the portion of the renal tubule with microvilli.

Which of the following would not be reabsorbed (removed from the filtrate and returned to the blood)at the proximal convoluted tubule?

The interstitial fluid in this region of the kidney has the highest solute concentration.

Which is a hormone that reduces blood volume and pressure and increases urine volume?

Which of the following is a disease characterized by the excretion of large amounts of dilute urine caused by a deficiency of ADH?

Match each definition in the first column to the correct term in the second column. -Cocaine would be eliminated from the body by the kidneys by this process.

If water were flowing from area "A" to area "B" through a semipermeable membrane,we might expect area "B" to be ________ in solute concentration compared to "A."

A person has large amounts of protein in his or her urine as determined by a urinalysis.The area of the nephron that must be malfunctioning is the ________.

Provide the path of the urine from the kidney to the outside.Make sure your explanation includes all structures and muscles that would be encountered as the urine leaves the body.

The peritoneum can function as a dialyzing membrane in a procedure called ________.

A region of the nephron that regulates the blood pressure in the afferent arteriole,which stimulates the release of aldosterone,is the ________.

Match each definition in the first column to the correct term in the second column. -The elimination of solid food residues occurs in this system.

What benefit do animals get from having very long loops of the nephron?

Match each definition in the first column to the correct term in the second column. -The elimination of carbon dioxides and water and body heat occurs in this system.

Match each definition in the first column to the correct term in the second column. -The system that eliminates nitrogenous wastes,excess water,salts,and excess ions from the body.

The ________ of several nephrons empty into a single collecting duct that eventually drains into the renal pelvis.

The nephron is under hormonal control for sodium and water reabsorption at the ________.