FINALS01: LABORATORY Flashcards
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Eliminates non-solid wastes from the body
EXCRETORY SYSTEM
4 organs of Excretory System
Kidney, Ureters, Urinary bladder, and Urethra
Are fist-sized and bean-shaped structures that filters blood to remove waste from the body
Kidney
Tubes that carry urine from pelvis of the kidney to urinary bladder
Ureters
Temporarily stores urine from the urinary bladder to outside the body
Urinary bladder
Tube that carries urine from the urinary bladder to the outside of the body
Urethra
Two layers of kidney
Medulla & Cortex
What are the filtering units
Nephrons
How many percent of blood is present in kidney
20%
3 Excretions of kidneys
Urea, Uric acid, & Creatinine
Waste product of muscle action
Creatinine
Nitrogenous waste produced in the liver from breakdown of protein
Urea
Usually produced from the breakdown of DNA or RNA
Uric acid
3 Functions of Kidneys in maintaining Homeostasis
(1) Removes waste from blood
(2) Helps to maintain electrolytes, pH, and fluid balance
(3) Releases key hormones
These are the filtering units in the kidneys, also clean and rebalance blood to produce urine
Neuphrons
Enumerate 3 Processes in cleaning the blood
Filtration, Reabsorption, & Excretion
What kind of process does water, electrolytes, amino acids, glucose, urea, and other small molecules diffuses out of the blood that creates filter?
FILTRATION
What kind of process enters the rest of tubule and reabsorbed to blood?
REABSORPTION
What kind of process where the remaining urine flows into a collecting duct that leads to the ureter?
EXCRETION
Recipient and donor tissue must match and drugs prevent tissue rejection
KIDNEY TRANSPLANT
Enumerate the 3 Disorders of Excretory System
UTI, Kidney Infections, & Kidney stones
What does UTI means?
Urinary Tract Infections
A type of disorders that includes painful urination burning sensations and has bloody or brown urine
Urinary Tract Infections or “UTI”
What do you call a bladder that has become affected by UTI?
Cystitis