Renal System Overview

Question 1

What is homeostasis?

Answer 1

Maintenance of the body’s internal environment

Question 2

What r the 4 major structures that make up the urinary tract?

Answer 2

Kidneys x2
Ureter x2
Bladder
Urethra

Question 3

Where is the urinary tract?

Answer 3

Retroperitoneum

Question 4

What protects the kidneys? 5 things

Answer 4

1. Retroperitoneal: posterior to other organs
2. Vertebral column: T12, L1-3
3. Ribs 11&12
4. Skeletal muscles
5. Fat, fascia and capsule of kidney

Question 5

Position of the right kidney with vertebral column

Answer 5

L1-3

Question 6

Position of left kidney with vertebral column

Answer 6

T12, L1, L2

Question 7

What’s in the renal hilum? 3 things

Answer 7

Renal artery
Renal vein
Renal pelvis

Question 8

Name this section of the kidney

Answer 8

Superior pole

Question 9

Name this part of the kidney

Answer 9

Inferior pole

Question 10

What is this structure?

Answer 10

Renal artery

Question 11

What’s this structure?

Answer 11

Renal vein

Question 12

What is this structure?

Answer 12

Renal pelvis

Question 13

What is this structure?

Answer 13

Ureter

Question 14

In the renal hilum what is the most anterior and most posterior?

Answer 14

Renal vein most anterior, renal pelvis most posterior

Question 15

Name this structure

Answer 15

Renal papillae

Question 16

Name this structure

Answer 16

Renal cortex

Question 17

Name this structure

Answer 17

Renal pyramid

Question 18

Name this structure

Answer 18

Renal capsule

Question 19

Name this structure

Answer 19

Renal medulla

Question 20

Name this structure

Answer 20

Renal pelvis

Question 21

Name this structure

Answer 21

Renal sinus

Question 22

Name this section of the nephron

Answer 22

Renal corpuscle

Question 23

Name this section of the nephron

Answer 23

Proximal convoluted tubule

Question 24

Name this section of the nephron

Answer 24

Loop of henle

Question 25

Name this section of the nephron

Answer 25

Distal convoluted tubule

Question 26

Name this section of the nephron

Answer 26

Collecting duct

Question 27

Name this section of the nephron

Answer 27

Renal papilla

Question 28

Where in the kidney is this part of the nephron?

Answer 28

Renal cortex

Question 29

Where in the kidney is this section of the nephron?

Answer 29

Renal medulla

Question 30

What is the junction called between the renal pelvis and the ureter?

Answer 30

Pelviureteric junction

Question 31

Name this section/ structure

Answer 31

Nephron collecting ducts

Question 32

Name this section/structure

Answer 32

Minor calyx

Question 33

Name this section/structure

Answer 33

Major calyx

Question 34

Name this section/structure

Answer 34

Renal pelvis

Question 35

Name this section/structure

Answer 35

Ureter

Question 36

What happens during micturation ?

Answer 36

Bladder releases via urethra

Question 37

What is the smooth muscle in bladder walls which contract during micturition called?

Answer 37

Detrusor

Question 38

What does urine enter and exit the bladder through and into what?

Answer 38

Enters: ureteric orifices Exits: internal urethral orifices Into: urethra

Question 39

Name this structure

Answer 39

Ureter

Question 40

Name this structure

Answer 40

Internal urethral orifice

Question 41

Name this structure

Answer 41

Internal urethral sphincter

Question 42

Name this structure

Answer 42

Prostate gland

Question 43

Name this structure

Answer 43

Prostatic urethra

Question 44

Name this structure

Answer 44

External urethral sphincter

Question 45

Name this structure and what it is within

Answer 45

Spongy urethra within corpus spongiosum

Question 46

Name this structure

Answer 46

External urethral orifice

Question 47

Name this structure

Answer 47

Bladder

Question 48

Name this structure

Answer 48

Internal urethral orifice

Question 49

Name this structure

Answer 49

Urethra

Question 50

Name this structure

Answer 50

External urethral sphincter

Question 51

Name this structure

Answer 51

Vestibule

Question 52

Name this structure

Answer 52

External urethral orifice

Question 53

Name this structure

Answer 53

Vaginal orifice

Question 54

Name this structure

Answer 54

Anus

Question 55

Name this structure

Answer 55

Rectum

Question 56

Name this structure

Answer 56

Uterus

Question 57

What supplies blood to the kidneys?

Answer 57

Renal arteries branched from abdominal aorta

Question 58

What supplies the ureter with blood?

Answer 58

Multiple arterial branches from the abdominal aorta

Question 59

Name the structure

Answer 59

Diaphragm

Question 60

Name this structure

Answer 60

Left kidney

Question 61

Name this structure

Answer 61

Left and right renal arteries

Question 62

Name this structure

Answer 62

Abdominal aorta

Question 63

Name this structure

Answer 63

Right kidney

Question 64

Name this structure

Answer 64

Inferior vena cava

Question 65

Name this structure

Answer 65

Left renal vein

Question 66

Name this structure

Answer 66

Right renal vein

Question 67

Renal veins drain deoxygenated blood into the IVC to be returned to the what?

Answer 67

Right atrium