Flash Cards from Lecture - Urinary
RENAL CORTEX
MOST SUPERFICIAL REGION; DARK BROWN; MANY BLOOD VESSELS
RENAL MEDULLA
MIDDLE REGION; CONTAINS RENAL PYRAMID; AKA MEDULLARY PYRAMIDS
MEDULLARY PYRAMID
RENAL PYRAMID; CONTAIN LOOPING TUBULES OF NEPHRONS (AVG 7-11) ALSO CALLED LOBES; DARK CONE SHAPED; CONTAIN URINE COLLECTING TUBULES
RENAL COLUMN
PART OF RENAL CORTEX; SEPARATE RENAL PYRAMIDS FROM EACH OTHER; INWARD EXTENSIONS OF CORTEX; CONTAIN GLOMERULA
RENAL PELVIS
BASIN FOR COLLECTING URING; INNERMOST REGION OF KIDNEY; MAJOR CALYCES DRAIN INTO IT
MAJOR/MINOR CALYCES
FLUID FROM RENAL PAPILLA DRAIN INTO MINOR THEN INTO MAJOR CALYCES THEN INTO RENAL PELVIS
RENAL PAPILLA
At apex of renal pyramid; collecting ducts pass through; where urine flows into minor calyces
URETER
FIRST PART OF URINARY TRACT; LINED WITH TRANSISITIONAL EPITHELIUM; WALLS ARE SMOOTH MUSCLE FOR PERSITALSIS females is is short in males 4x longer 3 parts in males prostatic prostate gland) membranous c s pelvic diaphragm spongy( penis)
URINARY BLADDER
URETERS DRAIN INTO BLADDER VIA URETERAL ORIFICES; TRANSITIONAL EPITHELIUM; SMOOTH MUSCLE SOMETIMES CALLED DETRUSOR MUSCLE; 3 layers of muscle?? End narrows to form internal urethral sphincter
URETHRA
FINAL ORGAN OF URINARY SYSTEM;
NEPHRON
BLOOD FILTERING STRUCTURES OF KIDNEY; 2 PARTS RENAL CORPUSCLE AND RENAL TUBULE
GLOMERULUS
BALL OF LOOPING CAPILLARIES; NOT PRIMARY SITE OF GAS/NUTRIENT EXCHANGE
PERITUBULAR CAPILLARIES
EFFERENT ARTERIOLE BRANCHES FORM THIS; SURROUND TUBULES OF NEPHRON; DIFFUSION OF 02 AND CO2/NUTRIENTS DRAIN INTO INTERLOBULAR VEINS
PROXIMAL CONVULUTED TUBE
FIRST PART OF RENAL TUBE; TOUCHES GLOMERULUS
NEPHRON LOOP
PART OF RENAL TUBE
DISTAL CONVOLUTED TUBE
LAST PART OF RENAL TUBE, TOUCHES COLLECTION DUCT
CORTICAL COLLECTING DUCT
COLLECTING SYSTEM; NOT PART OF NEPHRON LOOP; IN RENAL CORTEX
MEDULLARY COLLECTING DUCT
COLLECTING SYSTEM; NOT PART OF NEPHRON LOOP; IN MEDULLA CORTEX
PAPILLARY DUCT
MEDULLARY COLLECTION DUCTS ENLARGE INTO THESE; EMPTY INTO MINOR CALYCES
RENAL CORPUSCLE 2 PARTS
GLOMERULUS AND ??
2 LAYERS OF GLOMERULUS CAPSULE
OUTER PARIETAL LAYER AND INNER VISCERAL LAYER THAT CONTAINS PODOCYTES
PODOCYTES
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RENAL TUBE IS ALSO KNOW AS SLANG TERM
PLUMBING FOR THE KIDNEY
3 PARTS OF RENAL TUBE
PROXIMAL CONVOLUTED TUBULE; DESCENDING AND ASCENDING LIMBS OF NEPHRON LOOP; DISTAL CONVOLUTED TUBULE