Questions And 100% Actual Answers.
List substances that the kidneys filter from the blood - Answer Salts
Toxins
Water
What does polycystic kidney disease do the kidneys? Is it heredity? - Answer It may impair kidney
function and eventually cause kidney failure
Is polycystic kidney disease inherited? - Answer Yes it is a inherited kidney disorder
Kidney stones are typically formed from what 3 substances? - Answer Calcium
Oxalate
Uric acid
Urine is known to consist of 95% water. What type substances are found in the other 5%? - Answer
Solutes and nitrogenous wastes such as urea, uric acid. creatine, sodium, potassium, and ammonia
How urine color relates to hydration? - Answer Pale yellow to clear is normal and indicates that you're
well-hydrated. Light yellow and transparent is also normal and indicates an ideal hydration status
Discuss urochrome. Include how it is created - Answer Urochrome is the color and transparency of
urine is clear, pale, and deep yellow. It results from the body's destruction of hemoglobin, via bilirubin
and bile.
How is urochrome created? - Answer It results from the body's destruction of hemoglobin, via bilirubin
and bile.
Explain the 6 abnormal urinary constituents - Answer The six abnormal urinary constituents are having
glucose, protein, ketone, bile, red blood cells, and white blood cells.
, What diseases they may possibly indicate? - Answer The diseases that they may possibly indicate are
diabetes, heart failure, severe hypertension, or kidney failure, starvation, liver failure, kidney stones or
cancer in the urinary tract, and infection in the urinary tract
Parts of the urinary system - Answer Kidneys
Renal artery and vein
Ureters
Urinary bladder
Urethra
Structures of the bladder - Answer Detrusor muscle
Peritoneum
Adventitia
Trigone
Why the right kidney is lower than the left? - Answer The left kidney is located slightly more superior
than the right kidney due to the larger size of the liver on the right side of the body
External kidney - Answer Usually bean shaped, renal capsule, hilus
Internal structures of the kidney - Answer Renal cortex
Renal medulla
Renal pelvis
Explain the role of smooth muscle tissue in the kidneys - Answer The kidneys regulate the amount of
water in the body. ... On one end of the ureters is a funnel-shaped expansion, called the renal pelvis,
where urine collects.