Chapter 27 Urinary System

Question 1

130. What structures make up the Urinary Tract?

Answer 1

Ureters or
Urethra or
Urinary Bladder

Question 2

103. What is found in the Renal Lobes?

Answer 2

Renal Columns or
Minor Calyx or
Renal Pyramid

Question 3

122. What is found in the Urogenital Diaphragm surrounding the Urethra in the male?

Answer 3

External Urethral Sphincter

Question 4

113. What tubes/ducts are found in the medulla of the Kidney?

Answer 4

Vasa Recta or
Collecting Duct or
Ascending Limb of Nephron Loop

Question 5

123. What tissue is found on/in the inner layer of the Urinary Bladder?

Answer 5

Transitional Epithelial Tissue or
Rugae

Question 6

140. What structures make up an Arterial Portal System in the Kidneys?

Answer 6

Vasa Recta or
Glomerulus

Question 7

101. What is the pathway that blood takes from the Descending Abdominal Aorta to a Glomerulus in the Left Kidney?

Answer 7

Left Renal Artery - Left Segmental Arteries - Interlobar Arteries - Arcuate Arteries - Interlobular Arteries - Afferent Arterioles

Question 8

137. What are the Areas of the Male Urethra?

Answer 8

Prostatic Urethra, Membranous Urethra, Spongy Urethra

Question 9

133. What cells form the Visceral Layer of the Glomerulus?

Answer 9

Podocytes

Question 10

121. What forms the majority of the outer layer of the Urinary Bladder?

Answer 10

Adventitia

Question 11

108. Where does the Afferent Arteriole enter the Renal Corpuscle and the Efferent Arteriole leave the Renal Corpuscle?

Answer 11

Vascular Pole

Question 12

115. What type of capillaries make up the glomerulus?

Answer 12

Fenestrated Capillaries

Question 13

138. Where is 70% of the filtered water Reabsorbed in the Kidney?

Answer 13

Proximal Convoluted Tubule

Question 14

128. What is the Apex of a Renal Pyramid called?

Answer 14

Renal Papilla

Question 15

140. What structures make up an Arterial Portal System in the Kidneys?

Answer 15

Vasa Recta, Glomerulus

Question 16

126. What part of the Male Ureters are found within the Penis?

Answer 16

None

Question 17

129. What Capillary system surrounds the Nephron Loop?

Answer 17

Vasa Recta

Question 18

107. What structures form the Renal Corpuscle?

Answer 18

Glomerulus and Glomerular Capsule

Question 19

104. Where are the Arcuate Veins found?

Answer 19

Corticomedullary Junction

Question 20

110. What do the Interlobar Veins merge to form?

Answer 20

Renal Veins

Question 21

116. What causes the filtrate to leave the glomerulus and enter the space between the glomerulus and the renal capsule?

Answer 21

None

Question 22

SEVERAL MINOR CALYCES FUSE TO FORM

Answer 22

Major Calyx

Question 23

ALL OF THE MAJOR CALYCES FUSE TO FORM

Answer 23

Renal Pelvis

Question 24

What volume of blood is filtered how many times in a 24 hour period?

Answer 24

5 Liters, 36 times

Question 25

How much of the blood that enters the Glomerulus is filtered at a time?

Answer 25

20%

Question 26

What does the Nephron consist of?

Answer 26

Renal Corpuscle, Proximal Convoluted Tubule, A Nephron Loop, Distal Convoluted Tubule

Question 27

What has their renal corpuscle near the corticomedullary junction?

Answer 27

Juxtamedullary Nephron

Question 28

The bulk of this nephron is located in the Renal Cortex?

Answer 28

Cortical Nephron

Question 29

What percentage of Nephrons are Cortical Nephrons?

Answer 29

85%

Question 30

The tubules of the Kidney process the Filtrate, also known as

Answer 30

TUBULAR FLUID

Question 31

THE DISTAL CONVOLUTED TUBULE BECOMES

Answer 31

THE COLLECTING TUBULE

Question 32

MANY COLLECTING TUBULES DRAIN INTO

Answer 32

A COLLECTING DUCT

Question 33

What is the pole where the proximal convoluted tubule begins?

Answer 33

TUBULAR POLE

Question 34

This limb terminates in the distal convoluted tubule?

Answer 34

Ascending Limb

Question 35

THE SMOOTH MUSCLE FOUND IN THE WALL OF THE URINARY BLADDER IS

Answer 35

THE DETRUSOR MUSCLE