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What is a distal uretal calculus?
A distal uretal calculus is a kidney stone that has either moved to or developed just above the bladder in one of the tubes that brings urine down from the kidneys. This is a dangerous situation because the stone is hard a jagged and if it cuts through the tube, called the ureter, it can be potentially fatal.
Where are all the proximal and distal convoluted tubules of the kidney located?
If you are talking about the proximal/distal convoluted tubules. Then you are talking about a kidney, and in between them is the nephron loop or the Loop of Henle
Does secretion occur in the kidney?
Proximal and Distal tubes
Aldosterone acts on what part of the kidney?
distal convoluted tubule
Is calculus a name for a straight line?
No. Calculus is a branch of mathematics. Or a concretion of minerals - often in the kidney.
What is the destruction of a calculus?
This refers to the disintegration of a kidney stone.
What does the medical term calculus mean?
Calculus in some contexts means stone (such as a urinary calculus or salivary calculus), or can mean mineral deposits on teeth.A calculus, in medicine, is a stone that grows in some organs - such as a kidney.
What is the scientific name for kidney stone?
The scientific name for kidney stones is nephrolithiasis.
Are the kidneys distal to the heart?
No the kidneys are proximal to the bladder. The urethra is distal to the bladder.
What is a one word synonym for calculus?
The term calculus is a branch of mathematics. A synonym might be differentiation.The term calculus in medicine means a stone (kidney stone, gallstone).
What does the medical abbreviation UVJ mean?
Ureterovesical Junction
Whats a 1 cm calculus in kidey?
A 1cm calculus in the kidney is a fancy way of saying that there is a kidney stone that is a little less than 1/2 an inch in diameter (about the size of a pencil eraser).
