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The structure that stores urine temporarily is:
Topic: Urinary bladder
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(c) Urinary bladder.
The URINARY BLADDER is a muscular, distensible sac that stores urine until it is convenient to expel it. It can hold about 300-400 ml before the stretching of its wall triggers the urge to urinate.
The others each have a different job, and the three similar words must be kept apart: KIDNEYS — MAKE the urine by filtering blood URETER — CARRIES it from kidney to bladder URINARY BLADDER — STORES it URETHRA — CARRIES it from bladder to outside
Learn the sequence in order — kidney, ureter, bladder, urethra — and the function of each follows from its position. The ureter/urethra confusion costs marks every year.
Urinary bladder.