Urine’s journey past the kidneys
• The kidney tubules join into a collecting duct that opens into the renal pelvis.
– Funnels urine into the ureter
• Ureter (x2) refer to as ureters
– A tube that carries urine from the kidney to the bladder
– Function is storage of urine
– A tube that carries urine from the bladder to the outside world
– Male urethra is longer than the female urethra