Ch.11 Flashcards
Albumin (a protein)
Albumin/o
Germ, bud, developing cell
Blast/o
Little ball, glomerulus
Glomerul/o
Sweet, sugar
Gluc/o, glyc/o, glycos/o
Opening, passage
Meat/o
Kidney
Nephr/o, ren/o
Renal pelvis
Pyel/o
Ureter
Ureter/o
Urethra
Urethr/o
Urine
Ur/o, urin/o
Functions as the sanitation engineer of the body, maintaining the purity and health of the body’s fluids by removing unwanted waste materials and recycling other materials
Urinary system
Parts of the urinary system
Kidneys, paired ureters, urinary bladder, urethra
___________ is formed by three processes occurring in the kidneys: filtration of the blood to produce a filtrate; reabsorption of excess water, ions, and nutrients in the filtrate to return them to the bloodstream; and secretion of excess ions as waste into the filtrate
urine
Functions of the kidneys
Forming urine
-Regulation of blood pressure
-Regulation of pH within body fluids
-Regulation of water and salt concentrations
-Regulation of red blood cell production
Although the urethra, urinary bladder, and ureters are each protected by a ______________, bacteria and viruses are sometimes able to gain entry into the internal organs through the meatus
Mucous membrane
The surgical treatment of urinary disease is a medical discipline known as
Urology
In most hospitals and clinics, the unit specializing in the treatment of urinary diseases is also called
Urology
A physician specializing in this field of medicine is called a
Urologist
The field that specializes in the treatment of kidney disease is ________
-A physician specializing in this field is a
Nephrology
Nephrologist
Nephrology is a subspeciality of ___________, and if often called __________
Internal medicine
Renal medicine
Without, absence of
An-
Through
Dia-
Bad, abnormal, painful, difficult
Dys-
Excessive, over, many
Poly-