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27 Cards in this Set
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Acidosis |
Increase in acidity of body fluids below pH 7.35 |
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Alkalosis |
Increase in alkalinity of body fluids above pH 7.45 |
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Efferent arteriole |
The vessel that conducts blood away from the glomerulus of a kidney nephron |
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Electrolyte |
A substance that ionizes in water solution |
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Electrolyte balance |
Condition when the quantities of electrolytes entering the body equal those leaving it |
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Extracellular fluid compartment |
Fluid outside cells |
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Glomerulus |
A capillary tuft within the glomerulus capsule of a nephron |
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Intracellular fluid compartment |
Fluid within the cells |
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Micturition |
Urination |
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Nephron |
The functional unit of a kidney consisting of a renal corpuscle and a renal tubule |
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Renal cortex |
The outer portion of the kidney |
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Renal medulla |
The inner portion of a kidney |
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Renal tubule |
Portion of a nephron that extends from the renal corpuscle to the collecting duct |
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Urea |
A non protein nitrogenous substance resulting from protein metabolism |
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Ureter |
A muscular tube that carries urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder |
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Urethra |
Tube leading from the urinary bladder to the outside of the body |
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Urine |
Wastes a excess water removed from the blood and excreted by the kidneys into the ureters to the urinary bladder and out of the body through the urethra |
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Water balance |
Equivalence of the volume of water entering the body with the volume leaving it |
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Water of metabolism |
Water produced as a by product of metabolism |
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Calyc |
Small cup |
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Cort |
Covering |
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Extra |
Outside |
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Glom |
Little ball |
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Intra |
Inside |
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Mict |
To pass urine |
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Nephr |
Kidney |
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Neutr |
Neither one nor the other |
