URINARY SYSTEM INFORMATION- TERMINOLOGIES AND THEIR MEANINGS-LESSON 77

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In this lesson we will learn about the important Urinary system words and its meanings.
1. Aorta-a big blood vessel
2. Artery-asmaller branches of aorta
3. Aretriole-a smaller artery (a branch of artery)
4 Bowman's capsule-A goblet-shaped capsule enclosing each glomerulus
5. Calix or calyx (singular)-A cup-like collecting region of the renal pelvis.
6. Calices-pleural word for calix or calyx
7. Catheter-a tube used for removing or injecting fluids.

8. Cortex-superficial or external region

9. Renal Cortex- superficial or external region of the kidney

10. Cortical-pertaining to the cortex

11. Creatinine-a nitrogenous waste sent out in urine i.e. devastation product of muscle metabolism.

12. Electrolyte-a chemical substance that carries electrical charge in a liquid

13. Erythropoietin-a hormone produced by the kidney to fire up the production or red blood cells (RBCs).

14. Filtration-a process of the kidney in which substances like sugars, salts, water (also nitrogenous wastes like creatinine and urea) are filtered from the blood and excreted out as urine. But important salts and water are not fully excreted out but in a very minute amount only, the rest of the salts and water, sugar retain again into the blood.

15. Glomerulus-minute capillaries are intertwined and resembles like a ball in the cortex of the kidney. (capillaries are minute blood vessels).

16. Glomeruli-pleural form of glomerulus.

17. Hilum-a hole in the ground part of an organ where blood vessels and nerves go into and go away. A pit in the kidney where from blood vessels exit and enter.


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