Exam 29: Anatomy of the Urinary System

What do you call the outermost connective tissue wrapping that surrounds the kidney?

When dissecting a mammalian kidney in your lab, what is recommended plane of section to view the majority of the internal structures?

-Identify the structure labeled "g."

-What tissue type is found in the structure labeled "a"?

-Identify the structure labeled "l."

You are viewing a microscopic section of the kidney cortex and note a tubule composed of simple cuboidal cells that possess microvilli and contain numerous mitochondria. Identify the tubule.

What urinary organ transports urine from the kidney to the bladder?

-Identify the structure labeled "a."

What term describes the pores found in the visceral layer of the glomerular capsule?

You are viewing a microscopic specimen of a kidney and are examining structures at the cortex-medulla boundary. You see a glomerulus at the boundary. What type of nephron is the glomerulus connected to?

-Identify the structure labeled "a."

What is found in the outer layer of the glomerular capsule?

What connective tissue covering of the kidney is continuous with the visceral peritoneum?

Identify the smooth muscle that, when contracted, propels urine to the urethra.

After leaving the major calyx, what structure does urine flow to next?

Which of these structures does not enter/exit the kidney at the hilum?

What structure separates the renal pyramids?

What urinary organ produces urine?

What is the function of the hilum?

A frontal plane of section will divide the mammalian kidney into ________ parts.