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| removes waste, maintains acid base balance in body |
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| 2 kidneys, 2 ureters, bladder, urethra, urinary meatus |
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| Kidneys are protected by: |
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| fatty tissue kidneys are found in |
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| outer layer of kidney, most neurons that aid in production of urine |
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| inner layer, mostly tubes that carry urine |
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| filtering unit, 1 million per kidney |
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| inside nephron, cluster of capillaries that filter waste |
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| surround glomerulus, moves filtered materials through convolted tubule |
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| urine enters collecting tubes (medulla)which go into renal pelvis (ureter) |
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| Ureter extends from ___ to ___ |
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| wavelike motion of the involuntary muscle that moves urine through the ureter from the kidney to the bladder |
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| lining fold of bladder, disappears as it fills with urine |
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| Circular sphincter muscle: |
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| Circular sphincter muscle functions: |
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| receives urine from ureters, stores urine until released, urethra |
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| Meatus is ____ in females |
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| inability to empty bladder |
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| inflammation of bladder, more common in females because of shortness of urethra |
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| Cycstitus Symptoms and treatment: |
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| frequent urinations, pain and burning, bladder spasm, fever, blood in urine. antibiotics and increased fluid intake |
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| inflammation of the glomerulus, usually follows strep |
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| Glomerulonephritis symptoms and treatment: |
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| hematuria, hypertension, edema, fatigue, congestive heart failure, renal failure, death. Low salt diet, high blood pressure medication, dialysis, transplant |
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| Inflammation of kidney tissue and renal pelvis |
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| chills, fever, back pain, dysuria, hematuria |
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| antibiotics, increased fluid intake |
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| Renal Calculi (kidney stone): |
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| forms when salts in urine settle |
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| sudden pain, hematuria and retention |
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| increase fluids, pain meds, strain urine with gauze, lithotripsy, surgery |
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| caused by injury, poisoning, dehydration. promt treatment means good prognosis |
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| disease, toxic with waste in bloodstream |
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| Chronic Renal Failure Symptoms: |
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| ammonia breath, annuria, headachr and confusion, coma/death |
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| Chronic Renal Failure Treatment: |
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| restrictive treatment, death, dialysis, treatment |
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| painful urination, redness, itching at meatus, discharge |
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| sitz bath or warm compress, antiniotics, increased fluid |
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