Talk:Human Physiology/The Urinary System

Way to Go!
I'm thrilled to see that you are jumping right into things! The kidney can be divided into different regions--the cortex is the outermost, the medulla the middle, and the pelvis the inner. The functional unit of the kidney, the nephron, extends from the cortex into the medulla. There is a great article on the kidney to get you started. If you copy/paste directly from the article, it is probably best to remove most of the hyperlinks--we want our book to be self-contained so users do not have to jump to 10 different places every time they read a paragraph. It is fine to take the info from the wikipedia article, modify it for your chapter, and then put a link to the original article in a section called "references" or "further reading." If you edit this discussion page you will see how I linked to the wikipedia article.

Keep it up, and thanks for jumping right into things! ~Kevin

Adding images
I added that image by finding it at the |Wikimedia Commons. All you do is put double brackets around the words "image:" followed by the name of the image file that you found at the Commons (see the code when you edit your page and you will see what I mean). If you find a particular, copyright-free image that you want to upload, we should upload it to the Commons, and not directly to our book, so that it is available to others. Let me know if you want to do something like that and I can help. Feel free to find a better image--this one is really about the aorta--it was simply the first one I found that showed kidneys. Provophys 18:38, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Nephron picture
Brianna emailed a question about a nephron image. I looked on Wikipedia and found one on the nephron article that may be of interest. Hit "edit this page" if you want to see the code I used to make this image show up. But all I did was click on the image from Wikipedia to get the NAME of the image. It was called Gray1128.png‎ so I insert the name into the code, and hopefully it will show up. If I want it to show up smaller until clicked on, then I specify a size. I'll choose a size, give it a title, and move it to the right, just after the full-size image. By the way, this is one of the images from Gray's Anatomy, and if you did not know, it is a classic textbook of medical anatomy first published in 1858 (and still published today!). Do NOT think first about the TV series! Henry Gray published the work when he was only 31, and died just 3 years later from smallpox. Provophys 04:14, 25 March 2007 (UTC)



Why I deleted a reference
Just FYI, I deleted the citation to the class notes in the list of references. Why? Because if someone wanted to access those notes, it would not be possible to do so (if you want you can add Mader, Human Biology, since the notes are largely based on that book). I also added a link for the internet reference. Provophys 23:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Urethra
The urethra section repeats itself several times.