Vocabulary & Check Your Knowledge
Urinary System Vocabulary
Adventitial
The outermost layer of the wall of a blood vessel.
Apical
Relating to or denoting an apex.
Autonomic
Involuntary or unconscious.
Calyces
A cuplike cavity or structure.
Deamination
The removal of an amino group from a molecule.
Detrusor
A muscle which forms a layer of the wall of the bladder.
Excretion
Waste is eliminated from an organism. In vertebrates this is primarily carried out by the lungs, kidneys, and skin.
Homeostasis
A biological process that results in stable equilibrium.
Hydrostatic
Relating to the equilibrium of liquids and the pressure exerted by liquid at rest.
Hypothalamic
A region of the forebrain below the thalamus.
Lethargy
Periods of weakness.
Mitochondria
An organelle found in large numbers in most cells.
Osmosis
A process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one.
pH
pH is a measure of how acidic or alkaline a substance is, as determined by the number of free hydrogen ions in the substance.
Prostaglandins
Any of a group of compounds with varying hormone-like effects.
Pseudostratified
Consisting of closely packed cells which appear to be arranged in layers.
Solutes
The minor component in a solution.
Voiding
Excrete (waste matter).
Test Yourself
Urinary System Glossary Reinforcement Activity (Text Version)
- The removal of an amino group from molecule is called the _____[Blank 1].
- Voiding
- Deamination
- Calyces
- _____[Blank 2] is a measure of how acidic or alkaline a substance is, as determined by the number of free hydrogen ions in the substance.
- pH
- Apical
- Osmosis
- _____[Blank 3] relates to the equilibrium of liquids and the pressure exerted by liquid at rest.
- Solutes
- Hydrostatic
- Mitochondria
- The outermost layer of the wall of a blood vessel is called the ____[Blank 4].
- Hydrostatic
- Pseudostratified
- Adventitial
- Any of a group of compounds with varying hormone-like effects is referred to as _____[Blank 5].
- Solutes
- Excretion
- Prostaglandins
Check your answers: [1]
Activity source: Urinary System Glossary Reinforcement Activity by Gisele Tuzon, licensed under CC BY 4.0./Text version added.
Attribution
Except where otherwise noted, this chapter is adapted from “Urinary System” in Building a Medical Terminology Foundation by Kimberlee Carter and Marie Rutherford licensed under CC BY 4.0. / A derivative of Betts et al., which can be accessed for free from Anatomy and Physiology (OpenStax). Adaptations: dividing Urinary System chapter content into sub-chapters.
- 1. Deamination, 2.pH, 3. Hydrostatic, 4. Adventitial, 5. Prostaglandins ↵