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Question 1

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What is the physiologic pr[blank_start]o[blank_end]cesses occurring to filtrate when it is within the kidneys? (elimination / regulation of what?) 5 steps
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  • Elimination/Regulation (5 steps)

Question 2

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What enzyme does the kidney's release to regulate blood pressure, which hormone does it stimulate?
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  • Renin, angiotensin II
  • Angiotensin II, Renin

Question 3

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What ions do the kidneys regulate to control blood ion balance?
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  • CA, P, K, H
  • CA, K , H, Phosphate
  • NA, N, C, O
  • NA, CA, K, Phosphate

Question 4

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What functions do the kidney's perform?
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  • Formation of Calcitriol (increases absorption of Calcium in small intestine)
  • Production and release of leukocytes (protects the body from attacks0
  • Production and release of erythropoietin (Secretes EPO, stimulates RB marrow to increase RBC formation)
  • Potential to engage in gluconeogenesis (produce glucose during fasting/starvation, maintains glucose levels

Question 5

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In general, kidneys take care of our blood, remove unwanted blood materials, maintain blood plasma concentration of the ions, regulate blood pH, maintain blood glucose, maintain number of RBC's, helps blood pressure.
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  • True
  • False

Question 6

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Gluconeogenesis produces glucose in times of fasting/starvation from noncarbohydrate sources
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  • True
  • False

Question 7

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The urinary system is composed of what?
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  • Kidneys
  • Ureters
  • Urinary Bladder
  • Urethra
  • Heart

Question 8

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One of the primary functions of the kidney's is to filter blood and convert it into urine
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  • True
  • False

Question 9

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The liquid waste from the kidneys is transported by what to what?
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  • Urinary bladder, Urethra
  • Ureters, Urethra
  • Urethra, Urinary Bladder
  • Ureters, Urinary bladder

Question 10

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What structure of the urinary system forms urine?
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  • Urinary Bladder
  • Kidneys
  • Urethra

Question 11

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The urinary bladder is the expandable muscular sac which stores 1L of urine until it is eliminated from the body through the urethra
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  • True
  • False

Question 12

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What are the two means by which the kidney helps to regulate blood pressure?
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  • Fluid regulation
  • Releasing angiotensin II, stimulates renin
  • Releasing Renin, stimulates angiotensin II

Question 13

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The hilum apart of the kidney functions as what?
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  • Vessels, nerves, and ureter connect to kidney
  • Concave medial border
  • vessels, nerves, lymph nodes connect to kidney

Question 14

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Kidneys are located along _______ abdominal wall and ____ to the vertebral column?
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  • Anterior, Medial
  • Anterior, Superior
  • Posterior, Lateral
  • Posterior, Medial

Question 15

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The kidneys are positioned posterior to the parietal peritoneum in the retroperitoneal space.
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  • True
  • False

Question 16

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The kidneys are surrounded and supported by several tissue layers, which ones are they?
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  • FIbrous capsule
  • Fibrous tract
  • Perinephric fat
  • Renal fascia
  • Renal capsid
  • Paranephric fat

Question 17

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The fibrous capsule that surrounds the kidney directly is made of dense regular connective tissue.
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  • True
  • False

Question 18

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The perinephric fat, just behind the fibrous capsule contains adipose connective tissue.
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  • True
  • False

Question 19

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The renal fascia, external to the perinephric fat is composed of dense irregular adipose tissue.
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  • True
  • False

Question 20

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The paranephric fat, the outermost layer of the kidneys, is composed of adipose connective tissue.
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  • True
  • False

Question 21

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The right kidney is about 2 centimeters superior to the left kidney.
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  • True
  • False

Question 22

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Both kidneys are completely protected by the rib cage.
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  • True
  • False

Question 23

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The fibrous capsule of the kidney helps prevent infectious pathogens from penetrating it.
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  • True
  • False

Question 24

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The perinephric fat layer of the kidney helps anchor the kidney to surrounding structures.
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  • True
  • False

Question 25

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The perinephric fat provides cushion and support for the kidney.
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  • True
  • False

Question 26

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The paranephric fat also provides support and cushion for the kidney.
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  • True
  • False

Question 27

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What are the two distinct regions of the kidney?
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  • Renal Papilla
  • Renal lobes
  • Renal Cortex
  • Renal Medulla

Question 28

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The renal columns extend from the medulla into the cortex to subdivide it.
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  • True
  • False

Question 29

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The medially directed apex (tip) of the renal pyramid called renal papilla
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  • True
  • False

Question 30

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Which disease is the failure of a kidney to develop? (can have unilateral or bilateral)
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  • Renal agenesis
  • Horseshoe kidney
  • Supernumerary kidneys

Question 31

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Which is asymptomatic, which one is fatal: unilateral renal agenesis or bilateral renal agenesis.
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  • Unilateral - fatal, bilateral, asymptomatic
  • Unilateral - asymptomatic, bilateral - fatal

Question 32

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A Pelvic kidney may occur if the developing kidney fails to migrate from the pelvic cavity to the abdominal cavity (are asymptomatic and function normally)
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  • True
  • False

Question 33

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What is the wide base of the renal pyramid lies at the external edge of the medulla, where it meets the cortex?
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  • corticomedullary junction
  • corticomedullary border
  • both (same name)

Question 34

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The parenchyma of a human kidney can be dived into how many renal lobes?
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  • 8 to 15
  • 6-12
  • 8-12

Question 35

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A renal lobe consists of a renal pyramid, portions of renal column, portions of renal columns adjacent to either side of the renal pyramid, and the renal cortex external to the pyramid base.
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  • True
  • False

Question 36

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Each kidney contains a medially located space that serves as a urine drainage area called what?
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  • renal calyces
  • renal sinus
  • minor sinus
  • minor calyx

Question 37

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The main function of the ________ is to filter blood and remove unwanted substances out of the body.
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  • renal medulla
  • renal cortex

Question 38

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Housed within the space around the renal ______ are the renal artery, renal vein, lymph vessels, nerves, and a variable amount of fat.
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  • sinus
  • pelvis
  • cortex
  • medulla

Question 39

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This kidney structure enwraps the apex of the renal pyramids. Following production in the kidney, urine enters into a minor calyx following a passage through a renal papilla located at the apex. It then enters into the Major calyx and is passed into the ureter through the renal pelvis.
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  • True
  • False

Question 40

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What is it called when extra kidneys that develop, but are rare and have no clinical significance.
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  • Horseshoe kidneys
  • Supernumerary kidneys

Question 41

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What develops when the inferior parts of the left and right kidneys fuse and they ascent from the pelvic cavity into the abdominal cavity?
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  • Supernumerary kidneys
  • Horseshoe kidney

Question 42

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The "dropping" or inferior movement of the kidney within the abdominal cavity.
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  • hydronephrosis
  • hyponephrosis
  • renal ptosis

Question 43

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Urine backs up into the kidney which will result in a swelling of the kidney called hydronephrosis. If not treated, renal failure may occur.
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  • True
  • False

Question 44

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The loss of adipose connective tissue in very thin elderly people or individuals with anorexia may result in renal ptosis.
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  • True
  • False

Question 45

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What three anatomic structures of the kidney are innervated by the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system?
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  • juxtaglomerular apparatus, afferent and efferent arterioles
  • renal sinus, juxtaglomerular apparatus, renal pelvis
  • juxtaglomerular apparatus, renal papilla, renal colums
  • afferent and efferent arterioles, renal sinus

Question 46

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The general effect of sympathetic stimulation of the kidneys is to increase urine production.
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  • True
  • False

Question 47

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What is the microscopic functional filtration unit of the kidney?
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  • Renin
  • nephron

Question 48

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Each nephron consists of two major structures: a renal corpuscle and a renal tubule.
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  • True
  • False

Question 49

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All of the renal corpuscles and almost all of the renal tubules reside in the medulla.
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  • True
  • False

Question 50

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What is the enlarged, bulbous portion of a nephron housed within the renal cortex. Composed of two structures: glomerulus and the glomerular capsule.
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  • Renal Tubule
  • Renal Corpuscle

Question 51

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The glomerulus is a thick tangle of capillary loops called the glomerular capillaries.
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  • True
  • False
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