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Number 1. functions to filter your blood to remove wastes

Correct Answer: urinary system

Number 2. minerals in the body that have an electric charge

Correct Answer: Electrolytes

Number 3. two bean-shaped organs that remove these toxins from your blood and produce urine to carry them from the body

Correct Answer: kidneys

Number 4. type of waste that is filtered out of the blood and excreted in the urine

Correct Answer: Urea

Number 5. another type of waste that must be removed. These are mineral that have an electrical charge

Correct Answer: Electrolytes

Number 6. extremely important for cellular functions to take place

Correct Answer: acid-base balance

Number 7. Controlled partly by the kidneys by adjusting the amount of water and sodium lost into the urine

Correct Answer: Blood Volume

Number 8. the organs that filter the blood

Correct Answer: kidneys

Number 9. microscopic filtering units of the kidney

Correct Answer: nephrons

Number 10. a tube that drains urine from the kidneys to the bladder

Correct Answer: ureters

Number 11. stores urine

Correct Answer: bladder

Number 12. a tube that conveys urine to the outside of the body

Correct Answer: urethra

Number 13. specialized capillaries where filtration occurs to produce filtrate

Correct Answer: Glomerulus

Number 14. or Bowman's Capsule; structure that surrounds glomerulus

Correct Answer: Glomerular Capsule

Number 15. Where filtrate travels to remove or add particles/water

Correct Answer: Tubules

Number 16. reabsorption;  sends water and ions back to blood

Correct Answer: Proximal Tubule

Number 17. secretion; removes waste, drugs, acids, toxins from blood

Correct Answer: Distal Tubule

Number 18. reabsorption;  removes water and salt from filtrate and sends back into blood

Correct Answer: Loop of Henle

Number 19. last part of renal tubule where nephrons all join to collect filtrate and pass it to the ureters as urine

Correct Answer: Collecting Duct

Number 20. the movement of fluid from blood into the lumen of the tubules

Correct Answer: Filtration

Number 21. the fluid (water and blood plasma) that is filtered through the glomerulus

Correct Answer: filtrate

Number 22. process of moving water and solutes back into blood from the filtrate

Correct Answer: Reabsorption

Number 23. removal of selected substances from the blood into the filtrate

Correct Answer: Secretion

Number 24. to urinate

Correct Answer: Micturition

Number 25. to empty or excrete

Correct Answer: Void

Number 26. a test that analyzes the physical, chemical, and microscopic properties of urine

Correct Answer: urinalysis

Number 27. the GFR is a measurement of how much blood is filtered through the nephron per minute

Correct Answer: Glomerular Filtration Rate

Number 28. a disease in which the kidneys have stopped working

Correct Answer: Renal failure

Number 29. a solid piece of material that forms in the kidney from substances in the urine

Correct Answer: kidney stone

Number 30. shock waves

Correct Answer: lithotripsy

Number 31. part of the body on the side between the ribs and hips

Correct Answer: flank area

Number 32. blood in the urine

Correct Answer: hematuria

Number 33. pain with urination

Correct Answer: dysuria

Number 34. small undissolved calculi or stones present in the urine

Correct Answer: urolithiasis

Number 35. (UTI) are infections involving the urinary system organs

Correct Answer: Urinary tract infections

Number 36. A UTI in the bladder

Correct Answer: cystitis

Number 37. A UTI in the kidneys

Correct Answer: pyelonephritis

Number 38. A UTI in the urethra

Correct Answer: urethritis

Number 39. bacteria found in the intestines also abbreviated as E.coli

Correct Answer: Escherichia coli

Number 40. infection in the bloodstream

Correct Answer: septicemia