Place smoke detectors in the best places around the house. It is important to install detectors near sleeping areas and on every level of your home. Also place a detector in hallways and a carbon monoxide detector near heating, such as gas furnaces. Avoid installing a smoke detector in the kitchen.
The kidneys perform the excretory functions of this system. These organs produce urine, a fluid waste product containing water, ions, and small soluble compounds. Urine leaving the kidneys travels along the urinary tract, which consists of the paired ureters and the urinary bladder, where urine is temporarily stored. When urination, or micturition, occurs, contraction of the muscular urinary bladder forces urine through the.
(yoÍorâ²Ä­n) A liquid or semisolid substance containing waste products of metabolism that are filtered from the blood by the kidneys. In most mammals and some fish and birds, urine is stored in the urinary bladder and discharged from the body through the urethra. Liquid waste excreted by the kidneys.