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URINARY SYSTEM |
URINARY SYSTEM |
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What is excretion? |
Removal of waste from our body |
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What are waste products? |
Harmful substances made from cells. Urea, salts and water. |
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What do the lungs remove? |
CO2 during cellular respiration |
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What does the liver remove? |
Bile produced when hemoglobin turns to red cells. |
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What do kidneys remove? |
Urine from broken down proteins |
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What does skin remove ? |
Sweat |
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Function of the kidney |
Filters waste from blood, makes urine |
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Function of the ureter |
Muscular tube that takes pee from kidney to bladder |
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Function of bladder |
Muscular sac which stores pee |
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Function of Urethra |
Tube that carries pee from bladder to toilet |
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What is peristalsis |
Muscular contractions |
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What is a sphincter |
Muscle at the bottom of bladder that controls flow of pee. It relaxes when we pee |
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What is the renal artery |
Brings blood to kidney and it is filtered. Contains waste |
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What s a Renal vein |
Takes clean blood back to body |
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Kidneys: what is the cortex |
Outer layer |
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What is the medulla |
Inner layer |
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What is a nephron made of |
Malpighian body, which consisted of glomerulus and bowman's capsule |
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What is a renal tubule |
Made of loop of Henle and collecting tubule |
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Give a flow diagram of the blood to kidney process |
Blood-aorta-renal artery-arterioles - capillaries- nephron |
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Give the flow diagram of the blood from kidney to heart |
Clean blood- capillaries - venules- renal vein- vena cava- heart |
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What happens to pee on a hot and cold day |
Cold- more water ,more pee, more clear hot- less water- less pee- more concentrated |
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Can you live with one kidney |
Yes |
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What happens if both kidneys fail |
Get transplant or dialysis |
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What is dialysis |
A machine that filters blood like an artificial kidney. |
