Urinary System
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Glomerular Filtration | -The forcing of water and small solutes from the blood in a glomerulus into glomerulus capsule |
| Glomerulus | -the cluster of capillaries enveloped by the glomerular capsule. |
| Juxtaglomerular apparatus | -Specialized cells next to the glomerulus taht help to regulate blood pressure. |
| Micturition | -Urination |
| Nephron | -The structural and functional unit of tdhe kidneys. |
| Peritubular capillaries | - Capillaries surrounding a renal tubule |
| Renal corpuscle | -portion of a nephron composed of a glomerulus and its enveloping glomerular capsule. |
| Renal Tubule | -Teh portion of a mephron composed of a proximal convluted tuble, a nephron loop, and a distal convoluted tubule. |
| Tubluar reabsortion | -the movement of substance from the filtrate in renal tuble into blood in the peritubluar capillaries. |
| Tubular secretion | -The movement of sustnce from blood in peritubular capillaries into the flitrate in reneal tube. |
| Urinary system | -maintain the volume and composition of body fluids within normal limits. |
| The urinary systems consists of | -kidneys -ureters -urinary bladder -urethra. |
| Kidneys | -paired, reddish brown, bean shaped organs d -maintain the composition and volume of body fluid by temoving wastes and excess substances in the formation of urine. |
| Ureters | -slender tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder for temporary storage. |
| urine | -carried from the urinary bladder and is expelled from the body through the urethra. -Filtrate |
| Urinary Bladder | -hollow, muscular organ located psoterior to the symphysis pubis within the pelvic cavity. |
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