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What is two?
How many kidneys do we have?
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What is the urethra?
I go from the urinary bladder to the outside world.
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What is Renal Hypertension?
High blood pressure resulting from kidney disease.
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What is Urine?
Nitrogenous waste composed of water, salts and acid.
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What is micturition?
The physiological term for urination.
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What is kidney bean?
What the is the kidney?
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What are the ureters?
We carry urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder.
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What is Bladder Cancer?
Malignant tumor of the urinary bladder.
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What is Kidney?
This organ prevents waste from metabolism from building up and becoming toxic to the body.
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What is detrusor muscle?
The smooth muscle making up most of the wall of the urinary bladder which contracts involuntary to expel urine from the body through the urethra.
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What is nephrons?
What are the functions units of the kidneys?
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What is the urinary bladder?
I can hold up to 16 ounces of urine before it passes through to the urethra.
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What are Kidney Stones?
Forms when there is excessive amount of calcium or uric acid.
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What is Urinalysis?
Set of test performed on urine to determine chemical and microscopic composition.
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What is incontinence?
The name of the disorder common to women who have had children and elderly men in which a person increasingly loses control over their micturition reflex.
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What is getting rid of wastes, filtering blood, reabsorption, and formation of urine?
What are the four functions of the kidneys?
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What is the loop of henle?
I connect the proximal convoluted tubule and the distal convoluted tubule in mammals and birds. Fish don't have one of me.
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What is Renal Cell Carcinoma?
Cancerous tumor of the Kidney in adulthood.
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What is homeostasis?
Removing of excesses of normal biological molecules, such as ion and vitamins, helps maintain this.
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What is external urethral?
The constriction of this skeletal muscle contracts voluntarily to prevent urine from leaving the bladder.
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What is no?
Can you live without your kidneys?
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What is Bowmans capsule?
I encapsulated (surround) the glomerulus and catch the filtrates that are pushed out of the blood.
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What is Polycystic Kidney disease?
Multiple fluid-filled sacs (cysts) within and on the kidney.
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What is nephron?
Microscopic structure composed of a renal corpuscle and a renal tubule.
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What is transitional?
The bladder is able to expand as urine accumulates within it due to the presence of this type of epithelial tissue.
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