Urinary Tract AHS1 Flashcards

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What parts make up the upper urinary tract?

A

Kidney

Ureters

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What parts make up the lower urinary tract?

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Bladder

Urethra

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What glands are associated with the kidneys?

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The adrenal glands

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Which kidney is cranial?

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Right

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What are the big blood vessels of the kidneys?

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Renal arteries and veins at hilus

Left gonadal vein empties into the left renal vein

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What are the 3 types of kidney?

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Multipyramidal
Multipapillate
Unipyramidal

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What is the join between the cortex and the medulla called?

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The corticomedullary junction

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What is the part of the kidney that collects the urine called?

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The renal pelvis across the renal crest

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What are the blood vessels that run through the kidney called?

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Arcuate arteries

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What are the pyramids of the kidney?

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The segments of the medulla

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What are the lobes of the kidney?

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A pyramid with the adjacent cortex attached

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Where does each lobe drain into?

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Drains through the papilla (apex of the lobe) into the calices - funnels that drain into the renal pelvis

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What is a lobule of the kidney?

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Where you find the glomerulus

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What is a multipyramidal kidney?

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When the cortex/medulla hasn’t fused so has a clear lobar pattern

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Which main animal has multipyramidal kidneys?

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Cow

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Where are the kidneys situated in the cow?

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The right kidney is in normal place

The left kidney is pushed over to the midline by the rumen and looks twisted

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What doesn’t the Multipyramidal kindey have?

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A renal pelvis

Instead the lobes drain into the calices and go straight into the ureter

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What is a Multipapillate kidney?

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When the cortex is fused but the medulla is not

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What animals have a Multipapillate kidney?

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Pigs and humans

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How is the urine collected in the Multipapillate kidney?

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Through the minor and major calices into the renal pelvis

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Where are pig kidneys located?

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They are symmetrically located and are dorsoventrally flattened

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What is a unipyramidal kidney?

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When both the cortex and the medulla are fused

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What animals have a unipyramidal kidney?

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Dog, cat, horse, sheep etc.

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What is it called when the papillae join together in a unipyramidal kidney?

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The renal crest

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What indicates the former lobes in a unipyramidal kidney?
The arcuate and interlobar arteries
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What is different between cat and dog kidneys?
Cat kidneys are both palpable and are more mobile (less retroperitoneal)
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What is the main distinguishing feature of cat kidneys?
They have capsular/stellate veins on their capsule - look like a star
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What shape are the left and right equine kidney?
The left is bean shaped | The right is heart shaped
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What is different about sheep kidneys?
They are covered in fat
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What are the interlobular arteries?
They give off the glomeruli
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How is the kidney sympathetically innervated?
Via the coeliacomesenteric ganglion
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How is the kidney parasympathetically innervated?
Via the vagus nerve
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What epithelium lines the ureter?
Transitional epithelium
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How does the ureter propel urine down it?
Peristalsis - it is a tube of smooth muscle
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What is important to note about the location of the ureter?
It is very close to the uterine horns so need to be careful during a bitch spay
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How does the ureter enter the bladder?
Through the ureterovesical junction
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What is the course of the ureter into the bladder?
It enters obliquely and has a long intramural course
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What does having a long intramural course mean and what is significant about it?
It runs within the wall of the bladder for a long time | When pressure in the bladder increases it naturally squeezes the ureter shut to prevent backflow
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Where is the bladder located?
At the cranial edge of the pubis and it extends cranioventrally into the abdomen
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What is the area of the bladder where all the openings are called?
The bladder trigone
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What opens into the bladder at the trigone?
The ureterovesical openings | The internal urethral meatus(opening)
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Where is the trigone located?
At the dorsal bladder neck
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What are also located at the bladder trigone?
Most of the stretch receptors
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What smooth muscle makes up the bladder wall?
The detrusor muscle
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What sphincters are associated with the lower urinary tract?
The internal urethral sphincter | The external urethral sphincter
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What is the internal urethral sphincter made from?
It is a continuation of the detrusor muscle
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What is the external urethral sphincter made from?
The urethralis muscle - it is striated
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What supplies the bladder with sensory innervation?
Stretch receptors
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What supplies the bladder with parasympathetic innervation?
The pelvic nerves
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What supplies the bladder with sympathetic innervation?
The hypogastric nerves
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What supplies the bladder with somatic innervation?
The pudendal nerve
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What does parasympathetic innervation cause in the lower urinary tract?
It brings about micturition (urination): It contracts the detrusor muscle to squeeze the bladder It relaxes the internal urethral sphincter
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What does sympathetic innervation cause in the lower urinary tract?
Continence: It inhibits the detrusor muscle It contracts the internal urethral sphincter
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What does somatic innervation cause in the lower urinary tract?
Continence: | It contracts the external urethral sphincter
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What is the arterial blood supply to the bladder?
Vesical branches of the urogenital artery from the internal iliac artery
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What is the venous blood vessel from the bladder?
The internal pudendal vein which drains to the internal iliac vein
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What is the main muscle of the urethra?
The urethralis muscle
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What does the urethralis muscle do?
Surrounds most of the urethra and the external urethral sphincter
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What type of muscle is the urethralis muscle?
Striated muscle - voluntary
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What nerve innervates the urethralis muscle?
The pudendal nerve
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What makes a male cat difficult to catheterise?
The flexure - things often get blocked there