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mstodd genitourinary
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| CYST/O | BLADDER |
| VESIC/O | BLADDER |
| GLOMERUL/O | GLOMERULUS |
| LITH/O | STONE,CALCULUS |
| MEAT/O | OPENING,MEATUS |
| NEPHR/O | KIDNEY |
| REN/O | KIDNEY |
| PYEL/O | RENAL PELVIS |
| UR/O | URETER |
| URETHR/O | URETHRA |
| ANDR/O | MALE |
| EPIDIDIYM/O | EPIDIDYMIS |
| ORCH/O | TESTIS |
| ORCHI/O | TESTIS |
| ORCHID/O | TESTIS |
| TEST/O | TESTIS |
| PERINE/O | PERINEUM |
| PROSTAT/O | PROSTATE GLAND |
| SPERMAT/O | SPERMATOZOA, SPERM CELLS |
| SPERM/O | SPERM CELLS |
| VARIC/O | DILATED VEIN |
| VAS/O | VESSEL; VAS DEFERENS; DUCT |
| VESICUL/O | SEMINAL VESICLE |
| ALBUMIN/O | ALBUMIN, PROTEIN |
| AZOT/O | NITROGENOUS COMPOUNDS |
| BACTERI/O | BACTERIA |
| CRYPT/O | HIDDEN |
| GONAD/O | GONADS, SEX GLANDS |
| KAL/I | POTASSIUM |
| KETON/O | KETONE BODIES |
| NOCT/O | NIGHT |
| OLIG/O | SCANTY |
| PY/O | PUS |
| -CIDE | KILLING |
| -GENESIS | FORMING,PRODUCING,ORIGIN |
| -IASIS | ABNORMAL CONDITION |
| -ISM | CONDITION |
| -SPADIAS | SLIT,FISSURE |
| -URIA | URINE |
| DIA- | THROUGH,ACROSS |
| RETRO- | BACKWARD,BEHIND |
| _____ IS THE ABSENCE OF URINE PRODUCTION OR URINARY OUTPUT. | ANURIA |
| ______ IS THE RETENTION OF EXCESSIVE AMOUNTS OF NITROGENOUS COMPOUNDS. | AZOTEMIA |
| PAINFUL OR DIFFICULT URINATION. | DYSURIA |
| RENAL FAILURE THAT OCCURS OVER A PERIOD OF YEARS. | CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE |
| INVOLUNTARY DISCHARGE OF URINE. | ENURESIS |
| ABNORMAL PASSAGE FROM A HOLLOW ORGAN TO THE SURFACE OR FROM ONE ORGAN TO ANOTHER. | FISTULA |
| VOIDING URINE AT FREQUENT INTERVALS. | FREQUENCY |
| INVOLUNTARY DELAY IN INITIATING URINATION. | HESITANCY |
| ABNORMAL DILATION OF THE RENAL PELVIS AND THE CALYCES OF ONE OR BOTH KIDNEYS. | HYDRONEPHROSIS |
| EXCESSIVE OR FREQUENT URINATION AFTER GOING TO BED. | NOCTURIA |
| INHERITED DISEASE IN WHICH SACS OF FLUID CALLED CYSTS DEVELOP IN THE KIDNEYS. | POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE (PKD) |
| FEELING OF THE NEED TO VOID IMMEDIATELY. | URGENCY |
| DISORDER CAUSED BY THE FAILURE OF URINE TO PASS THROUGH THE URETERS TO THE BLADDER. | VESICOURETERAL REFLUX (VUR) |
| RAPIDLY DEVELOPING MALIGNANT NEOPLASM OF THE KIDNEY THAT USUALLY OCCURS IN CHILDREN. | WILMS TUMOR |
| CONGENITAL ABSENCE OF ONE OR BOTH TESTES. | ANORCHIDISM |
| FAILURE TO FORM OR EJACULATE SEMEN. | ASPERMIA |
| INFLAMMATION OF THE SKIN COVERING THE GLANS PENIS. | BALANITIS |
| REPEATED INABILITY TO INITIATE OR MAINTAIN AN ERECTION SUFFICIENT FOR SEXUAL INTERCOURSE. | ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION (ED) |
| MALFORMATION IN WHICH THE URETHRA OPENS ON THE DORSUM OF THE PENIS. | EPISPADIAS |
| CONDITION IN WHICH KIDNEY FUNCTION IS PERMANENTLY LOST. | END-STAGE RENAL DISEASE (ESRD) |
| STENOSIS OR NARROWING OF PERPUTIAL ORIFICE SO THAT THE FORESKIN CANNOT BE RETRACTED. | PHIMOSIS |
| SCREENING TEST THAT ASSESSES THE RECTAL WALL SURFACE FOR LESIONS. | DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION (DRE) |
| MEASURES THE CONTRACTION OF MUSCLES THAT CONTROL URINATION. | ELECTROMYOGRAPHY (EMG) |
| SELF-EXAM OF THE TESTES. | TESTICULAR SELF-EXAMINATION (TSE) |
| TEST THAT DETERMINES THE AMOUNT OF UREA NITROGEN PRESENT IN A BLOOD SAMPLE. | BLOOD UREA NITROGEN (BUN) |
| TEST THAT DETERMINES THE CAUSATIVE ORGANISM OF A DISEASE AND HOW IT RESPONDS TO ANTIBODIES. | CULTURE AND SENSITIVITY (C&S) |
| BLOOD TEST USED TO DETECT PROSTATIC DISORDERS, ESPECIALLY PROSTATIC CANCER. | PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN (PSA) |
| TEST THAT ANALYZES A SEMEN SAMPLE. | SEMEN ANALYSIS |
| BATTERY OF TESTS PERFORMED ON A URINE SPECIMEN. | URINALYSIS (UA) |
| RADIOGRAPHIC EXAMINATION OF THE URINARY BLADDER. | CYSTOGRAPHY |
| RADIOGRAPIC EXAMINATION OF THE KIDNEYS,AND URINARY TRACT AFTER IV INJECTION. | INTRAVENOUS PYLEOGRAPHY (IVP) |
| RADIOGRAPHIC EXAMINATION TO DETERMINE THE LOCATION, SIZE AND SHAPE OF THE KIDNEYS. | KIDNEY,URETER,BLADDER RADIOGRAPHY (KUB) |
| RADIOLOGY TEST IN WHICH RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS ARE USED WITH A SPECIALIZED CAMERA. | NUCLEAR SCAN |
| MEDICAL PROCEDURE USED TO FILTER TOXIC SUBSTANCES FROMTHE PATIENT'S BLOODSTREAM. | DIALYSIS |
| METHOD OF REMOVING WASE SUBSTANCES FROM THE BODY BY PASSING IT THROUGH A MACHINE. | HEMODIALYSIS |
| REMOVAL OF TOXIC SUBSTANCES FROM THE BODY BY INJECTING WARM STERILE CHEMICAL SOLUTION. | PERITONEAL DIALYSIS |
| REMOVAL OF ALL OR PART OF THE FORESKIN OF THE PENIS. | CIRCUMCISION |
| FIXATION OF A FLOATING OR MOBILE KIDNEY. | NEPHROPEXY |
| REMOVAL OF ONE OR BOTH TESTES. | ORCHIDECTOMY |
| SURGICAL PROCEDURE THAT INVOLVES INSERTING A RESECTOSCOPE INTO THE URETHA. | TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF THE PROSTATE (TURP) |
| INCISION OF A URETHRAL STRICTURE. | URETHROTOMY |
| EXCISION OF ALL OR A SEGMENT OF THE VAS DEFERENS. | VASECTOMY |
| TREAT BACTERIAL INFECTIONS OF THE URINARY TRACT. | ANTIBIOTICS |
| DECREASE SPASMS IN THE URETHRA AND BLADDER. | ANTISPASMODICS |
| PROMOTE AND INCREASE THE EXCRETION OF URINE. | DIURETICS |
| REPLACE POTASSIUM DUE TO DEPLETION CAUSED BY DIURETICS. | POTASSIUM SUPPLEMENTS |
| INCREASE TESTOSTERONE LEVELS. | ANDROGENS |
| TREAT ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION (IMPOTENCE). | ANTI-IMPOTENCE AGENTS |
| AGN | ACUTE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS |
| ARF | ACUTE RENAL FAILURE |
| ATN | ACUTE TUBULAR NECROSIS |
| BNO | BLADDER NECK OBSTRUCTION |
| BPH | BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA;BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY |
| BUN | BLOOD UREA NITROGEN |
| C&S | CULTURE AND SENSITIVITY |
| Cath | CATHETERIZATION; CATHETER |
| CYSTO | CYSTOSCOPY |
| DRE | DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION |
| EBT | EXTERNAL BEAM THERAPY |
| ED | ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION |
| EMG | ELECTROMYOGRAM;ELECTROMYOGRAPHY |
| ESRD | END-STAGE RENAL DISEASE |
| ESWL | EXTRACORPOREAL SHOCK-WAVE LITHROTRIPSY |
| GU | GENITOURINARY |
| HD | HEMODIALYSIS |
| HTN | HYPERTENSION |
| IVP | INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAM;INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAPHY |
| K | POTASSIUM |
| KUB | KINDEY,URETER,BLADDER |
| Na | SODIUM |
| PCNL | PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITHOTOMY |
| pH | SYMBOL FOR DEGREE OF ACIDITY OR ALKALINITY |
| PKD | POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE |
| PSA | PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN |
| RP | RETROGRADE PYELOGRAM; RETROGRADE PYELOGRAPHY |
| sp.gr. | SPECIFIC GRAVITY |
| TSE | TESTICULAR SELF-EXAMINATION |
| TURP | TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF THE PROSTATE |
| UA | URINALYSIS |
| UTI | URINARY TRACT INFECTION |
| VCUG | VIODING CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY PROSTATE |
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