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• KIDNEY


  Reddish brown, bean-shaped organ
• GLOMERULUS


  Only place where blood is actually "filtered"
• INCONTINENCE


  Inability to control urination
• ACUTE RENAL FAILURE


  Sudden loss of kidney function; reversible
• URETER


  Transports urine from kidney to bladder
• LAMINA DENSA


  Size barrier
• HILUM


  Point of entry for renal artery
• RENAL CORTEX


  Outermost layer of the kidney
• BOWMAN'S CAPSULE


  Container surrounding the glomerulus
• NEPHRONS


  Functional units of the kidney
• RENAL MEDULLA


  Middle portion of the kidney
• URINARY SPACE


  Space between layers of bowman's capsule
• URINARY BLADDER


  Hollow, distensible, muscular organ in pelvic cavity
• LAMINA RARA


  Size and charge barrier
• RENAL SINUS


  Concave depression in kidney's surface
• URINE


  Made up of urea, water, and salt
• RENAL CORPUSCLE


  Filtering portion of nephrons
• ABDOMINAL AORTA


  Gives rise to renal arteries leading to kidney
• URETHRA


  Carries urine out of the body
• POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE


  Enlargement of kidneys
• SPERMATOGENESIS


  Production of male gametes
• MYOMETRIUM


  Smooth muscle layer of uterine wall
• TESTES


  Pair of oval bodies lodged in scrotum
• OOGENESIS


  Production of female gametes
• PROSTATE


  Produces thin, milky fluid
• BULBOURETHRAL GLAND


  Also known as cowper's glands
• MENSTRUATION


  Occurs by degeneration of the corpus Ileum
• GRANULOSA CELLS


  Multiple layers of developed follicular cells
• EPIDIDYMIS


  Where sperm cells are stored
• FERTILIZATION


  Union of male and female gametes
• INTERSTITIAL CELLS OF LEYDIG

  Cell that produces testosterone
• SPERMATOZOON


  Mature male reproductive cell (sperm cell)
• SERTOLI CELLS


  Form blood-testis barrier
• OVULATION


  Release of mature egg from the ovary
• PRIMORDIAL FOLLICLE


  Develop during Fetal life
• SEMINAL VESICLE


  A diverticulum of the distal end of the vas
• GAMETOGENESIS


  Production of male and female gametes
• CERVICAL TRANSFORMATION ZONE


  Abrupt change from simple columnar to stratified squamous epithelium
• FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE


  Stimulates growth of follicle
• TUNICA ALBUGINEA


  Thick capsule of dense connective tissues surrounding each testis