urinary and circulation

Question 1

What long, fibromuscular tubes conduct urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder?

Answer 1

Ureters

Question 2

What is the location of the ureters?

Answer 2

Retroperitoneal

Question 3

Where do the ureters enter the bladder?

Answer 3

Posterolateral wall

Question 4

What organ serves as a reservoir for urine?

Answer 4

Urinary bladder

Question 5

What is the general location of the urinary bladder?

Answer 5

Posterior to the pubic symphysis

Question 6

What is the position of the urinary bladder in relation to the peritoneum?

Answer 6

Retroperitoneal

Question 7

What type of tissue is found lining the bladder, and why is it necessary?

Answer 7

transitional epithelium
allows the bladder to distend

Question 8

Where is the base of the bladder located?

Answer 8

The posteroinferior aspect

Question 9

Where is the apex of the bladder located?

Answer 9

The anterosuperior aspect

Question 10

What structure of the bladder is responsible for the apex?

Answer 10

Median umbilical ligament

Question 11

What important triangular shaped feature of the bladder appears at the base?

Answer 11

The trigone

Question 12

What three structures make up the trigone?

Answer 12

Left ureter
Right ureter
urethra

Question 13

What is the specific location of the bladder in females?

Answer 13

Inferior to the uterus
Anterior to the vagina

Question 14

What is the specific location of the bladder in males

Answer 14

Superior to the prostate gland
anterior to the rectum

Question 15

What fibromuscular tube conducts urine to the exterior of the body?

Answer 15

Urethra

Question 16

What circular array of smooth muscle guards the orifice of the urethra?

Answer 16

Internal urethral sphincter

Question 17

How long is the female urethra?

Answer 17

3-5 cm

Question 18

How long is the male urethra?

Answer 18

18-20 cm

Question 19

The bifurcations of the abdominal aorta themselves bifurcate into what two arteries?

Answer 19

Internal iliac arteries
External iliac arteries

Question 20

What artery is a branch of the external iliac and supplies the abdominal wall?

Answer 20

Inferior epigastric arteries

Question 21

What artery supplies blood to the pelvis and perineum?

Answer 21

Internal iliac artery

Question 22

What blood vessel is the main arterial supply of the lower extremity?

Answer 22

External iliac artery

Question 23

What structure marks the superior border of the femoral artery?

Answer 23

inguinal ligament

Question 24

What vein extends from the hiatus of the adductor magnus to the inguinal ligament?

Answer 24

Femoral vein

Question 25

What vein extends from the inguinal ligament to the merger of this vein with the internal iliac vein?

Answer 25

External iliac vein

Question 26

What vein is formed by the convergence of the external and internal iliac veins?

Answer 26

Common iliac vein

Question 27

The common iliac veins merge to form what vein?

Answer 27

Inferior vena cava