Question

1. What effect would an expanding uterus have on the bladder?

2. What effect does an enlarged prostate have on the urinary system?

3. What cellular features allow the apical cells of the bladder's urothelium to form a permeability barrier?

4. Will rugae be present or absent when the bladder is distended?

5. Is the bladder in the peritoneal cavity with the stomach and small intestines?

6. What direction does the hilum of a kidney face? Anterior, lateral, medial, or posterior?

7. What structures enter and/or exit the kidney at the hilum?

Answer 1

1) Expanding uterus compress the bladder. Hence decreses its capacity leading to freuent urinary urg.

2) Enlargement of prostate causes obstruction to urethra, hence lead to urinary hesitancy and decresed stream of urine

3) Umbrella cell has tigt junction hence allow the apical cells of the bladder's urothelium to form a permeability barrier.

4) absent - rugae disappere on distension of bladder

5) No. Bladder lies in pelvic cavity.

6) Medial

7) Renal artery, Renal Vein, ureter, lymphatics and nerves.