stackyFACTSDespite feeling like it holds oceans of fluid, your bladder maxes out at roughly a pint. It relies entirely on constant micro-management rather than actual massive storage capability.
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Ignoring nature's call too frequently comes with severe mechanical consequences. If you constantly force your bladder to hold maximum capacity for excessive…
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If liquid waste could seep back into your tissues, you would be in constant peril. To prevent this, the bladder is lined with the urothelium, a…
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Urine does not just passively fall from the kidneys into the bladder via gravity; it is actively shoved. The ureters are muscular tubes that violently squeeze…
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You do not consciously control the most important dam in your urinary system. The internal sphincter is an automated muscular ring at the base of the bladder…
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We are apparently built with completely unnecessary redundancy. A single kidney can trivially ramp up its capacity to handle the workload of two, making the…
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From a purely structural standpoint, female urinary plumbing got entirely shortchanged. The female urethra is significantly shorter than the male counterpart,…
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