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What is the medical term meaning surgical repair of the ureter and renal pelvis?
Pyelotomy is surgical incision into the renal pelvis. A related term, pyeloplasty, is surgical repair of the renal pelvis.
What is the basin like area of the kidney continuous with the ureter called?
The basin-like area of the kidney that is continuous with the ureter is called the renal pelvis. It collects urine from the kidney's collecting ducts before it flows into the ureter for transport to the bladder.
What is the inner layer of the kidney that leads to the ureter?
The inner layer of the kidney that leads to the ureter is called the renal pelvis. It collects urine from the kidney's collecting ducts and funnels it into the ureter, which carries the urine to the bladder for storage.
What structure drains urine from the renal pelvis to the urinary bladder is called?
Ureter
Which part of the kidney is an expansion of the upper end of a ureter?
The ureter joins the kidney at an area called the renal pelvis.The renal Pelvis
What condition accompanies hydronephrosis?
Swelling of the ureter, which always accompanies hydronephrosis, is called hydroureter. Hydronephrosis implies that a ureter and the renal pelvis (the connection of the ureter to the kidney) are overfilled with urine.
What kidney structure empties into the ureter?
The renal pelvis is the structure in the kidney that empties into the ureter. It collects urine from the calyces and funnels it into the ureter for transport to the bladder.
What is the flat cavity that is continuous with the ureter?
The flat cavity that is continuous with the ureter is the renal pelvis. It is a funnel-shaped structure in the kidney that collects urine from the calyces and funnels it into the ureter for transportation to the bladder.
What does the expanded end of the ureter form?
Renal pelvis.
Is the inner layer of the kidney called the pelvis?
The inner part of the kidney is called the renal medulla. Next to the medulla is the pelvis which collects the urine and becomes the ureter which goes down and opens in the bladder
What is the medical term meaning surgical repair of a calyx?
Calyx (plural: calyces) means "cup" or seed pod/outer covering (from it botanical usage). In anatomy it refers primarily to that tissue which surrounds the apex of the renal pyramid. Urine passes through the papilla (apex) into the calyx and finds it was outside in the renal pelvis and dribbling down the ureter to be held in the urinary bladder until urination.
The cavity within the kidney that collects urine?
The cavity within the kidney that collects urine is called the renal pelvis. From the renal pelvis, urine travels down the ureter to the bladder for storage and eventual excretion.
