Peeing

Question 1

What is micturition?

Answer 1

the process of urine excretion from the urinary bladder

Question 2

What type of autonomic control is the passing of urine under?

Answer 2

parasympathetic

Question 3

What detects the filling of the bladder?

Answer 3

stretch receptors

Question 4

Describe the pathway of bladder afferents?

Answer 4

ascend in the spinal cord to the pontine micturition centre and cerebrum

Question 5

What effects do efferent signals have on the bladder if it is a good time to pee?

Answer 5

relax internal urethral sphincter

efferent signals excite the detrusor muscle

Question 6

What form the upper corners of the trigone?

Answer 6

the ureters

Question 7

Which wall of the baldder do the ureters empty into?

Answer 7

the posterior wall

Question 8

Which urethral sphincter is under voluntary control?

Answer 8

the external urethral sphincter

Question 9

Which urethral sphincter is under involuntary control?

Answer 9

internal urethral sphincter

Question 10

Which nerve supplies the external uretheral sphincter?

Answer 10

pedundal nerve