25. The Urinary System

A client is recovering from an attack of gout. Which of the following should the nurse include in the client teaching to help maintain homeostasis?

Which of the following organs removes metabolic waste products from the blood?

Which treatment for renal failure uses an artificial kidney machine to filter waste from the blood?

All of the following statements regarding the medical terms 'ureter' and 'urethra' are true EXCEPT:

Each kidney has about one million of which structure, the functional unit responsible for urine formation?

The mechanism for producing a concentrated urine involves all of the following except:

Which excretory organ is used by insects to remove waste products?

What is the function of rugae located in the wall of the urinary bladder?

Which of the following is the final segment of the renal tubule of a nephron?

What is the primary function of the urinary system?

Which system in the human body functions primarily to remove wastes from the body?

Which of the following structures is responsible for transporting urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder?

What is the most abundant nitrogenous waste that the kidneys remove from the blood?

Which body system filters wastes from the blood and helps to regulate fluid balance?

Which of the following substances is least likely to be found in glomerular filtrate?