What is the sac in which urine collects in the body?

What is the sac in which urine collects in the body?

the bladder: a sac that collects the pee.

What is the sac called that urine is stored in?

The urinary bladder is a muscular sac in the pelvis, just above and behind the pubic bone. When empty, the bladder is about the size and shape of a pear. Urine is made in the kidneys and travels down two tubes called ureters to the bladder. The bladder stores urine, allowing urination to be infrequent and controlled.

Where does the urine collect?

Urine collects from the nephrons and flows into the ureters. The ureters use smooth muscle contractions to facilitate the flow of urine. The urinary bladder is a hollow, muscular, and elastic organ that stores urine. Urine exits the bladder and the body through the urethra.

Is the visual examination of the urinary bladder?

Cystoscopy – scopy is visual examination, cyst/o- means bladder or sac; so a cystoscopy is a visual examination of the bladder.

Which of the following is the proper sequence that urine flows in a male?

extra info: Starting at the apex of a medullary pyramid, the correct sequence of structures through which urine flows to reach the exterior of the body is calyx, renal pelvis, ureter, urinary bladder, urethra.

What is the flow of urine?

Typically, urine flow runs from 10 ml to 21 ml per second. Women range closer to 15 ml to 18 ml per second. A slow or low flow rate may mean there is an obstruction at the bladder neck or in the urethra, an enlarged prostate, or a weak bladder.

What is the pathway in order of urine production by the kidneys?

The kidneys filter unwanted substances from the blood and produce urine to excrete them. There are three main steps of urine formation: glomerular filtration, reabsorption, and secretion.

What is a visual examination of the urinary tract?

What is cystectomy?

Surgery to remove all or part of the bladder (the organ that holds urine) or to remove a cyst (a sac or capsule in the body).