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| How much blood do the kidneys filter everyday? |
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| What is the most common acute renal disease? |
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| Renal Calculi (Kidney Stones) 1161 |
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| What filters blood and produces urine? |
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| What transports urine from the kidneys to the bladder? |
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| What stores the urine until it is released from the body? |
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| What is the route by which urine leaves the bladder and exits the body? |
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| What is a cleft where the ureters, renal blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, and nerves enter and leave the kidneys? |
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| What is a layer of dense fibrous connective tissue that anchors the kidneys to the abdominal wall? |
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| What is incomplete emptying of the bladder, or even a complete lack of ability to empty the bladder? |
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| What is inflammation of the kidney linings? |
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| What is loss of bladder control-the inability to control the release of urine from the bladder? |
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| Urinary Incontinence 1169 |
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| What is urine output of less than 500 mL/day? |
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| What is complete cessation of urine production? |
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| What is chronic inflammation of the interstitial cells surrounding the nephrons? |
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| Interstitial Nephritis 1171 |
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| What is toxic to the kidneys? |
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| What is a powdery accumulation of uric acid? |
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| What is the inability to retract the distal foreskin over the glans penis? |
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| What results when the foreskin is retracted over the glans penis and becomes entrapped? |
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| What is the most common renal disorder? |
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| How much of the body's systemic cardiac output flows through the kidneys each minute? |
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| What is found in the cortex, are the structural and functional units of the kidney that form urine? |
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| What is a double-layered cup in which the inner layer infiltrates and surrounds the capillaries of the glomerulus? |
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| What is a series of peritubular capillaries that surround the loop of Henle? |
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