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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