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Which type of epithelial tissue stretches and allows for your urinary bladder to expand as it fills with urine?
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transitional epithelium
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What Epithelial tissue that's found in bladder lining?
The urinary bladder and ureters are lined with transitional epithelium. This tissue allows the bladder to stretch when full and contract when empty. It looks like cuboidal epithelium when the bladder is contracted, and like stratified epithelium when distended.
What tissues make up the bladder?
Pseudostratified. The bladder is the only organ with that type of tissue. The answer above is wrong! the urinary bladder is composed of transitional epithelium with an underlying connective tissue. the transitional epithelium allows the bladder t expand in order to fill it with urine and relax when urine is released.
Which tube allows urine to enter the urinary canal?
The ureters allow urine to pass into the bladder, the urethra allows urine to pass into the urinary canal.
What is the diagnostic procedure that allows for the visualization of the urinary bladder?
This procedure would be called a cystoscopy.
What cells are found in the urinary system?
The tissues are called epithelium, which are made of epithelial cells. There are different types of epithelium. In the urinary bladder, the cells are transitional epithelium, which allows it to stretch and shrink.
What is the medical term meaning Instrument for examining the urinary tract?
A cystoscope is an instrument that allows visual examination of the bladder. Cystoscopy is the name of the process.
What is the Function of the urinary bladder of the fish?
The urinary bladder is situated behind the Vent (Anus) on the fish. Just as it is on humans, it is there to release any unwanted waste from the body. Fish have two bladders, one is a swim bladder and the other is the urinary bladder. Do not get these mixed up. The swim bladder allows the fish swim in different densities of water and the urinary bladder is to pass urine. Fish do not use urea to get rid of their nitrogen like mammals do, but instead use NH3 Ammonia.
What is the medical term meaning instrument used to examine the bladder?
Cystoscopy is the medical term for visual examination of the bladder using a scope. Cyst/o means urinary bladder, and -scopy means to visually examine. It allows for a visual examination of the urinary bladder and is usually an out-patient procedure. Your doctor will insert a very small thin cable with a camera attached at the end of it to actually look at your bladder or perform a small biopsy of it if needed. The procedure lets your doctor see things he/she might have missed otherwise with an x-ray or MRI.
What type of tissue that allows you to smile?
epithelial
Which tissue allows for glandular secretions?
Epithelial Tissue
What is the passageway that allows the body to excrete urea out of the body?
Kidneys to bladder, bladder to urethra, urethra out of the body.
What type of epithelial tissue allows substances to readily diffuse through it?
simple squamous
