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| What is another term for micturation? |
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| How much does the urinary bladder hold? |
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| At what level do the stretch receptors cause stimulation? |
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| What is teh Micturation reflex? |
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| spinal cord- contract detrussor muscle-muscularis layer |
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| When the detrussor muscle in contracted, what does the parasympathetic stimulation cause? |
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| stimulates releases internal sphincter |
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| What part of the brain has control over the voluntar control of the external sphincter? |
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| What is Vesicoureteral reflux? |
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| Urine from bladder to ureter causes reflux into ureters that increases kidney pressure and causes infections |
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| What causes the color of urine? |
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| Urochroms- a bile pigment from hemoglobin, bilirubin |
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| What changes the pH of urea? |
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| Protein diet, acidic; vegetable diet, basic |
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| What is the specific gravity of urea? |
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| 1.--1 to 1.035 compared to water at 1.0 |
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| What is the chemical composition of urea? |
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95% water and 5
95% water and 5% solutes |
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| What are the solutes in urea? |
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| 5%- urea from amino acids, uric acid from nuclei acids, and creatine from creatine phosphate, Na+, K=, phosphate, bicarbonate |
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