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MedTermsUrineSystem
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Excretion | process body produces wastes |
| Urination | act of voiding |
| Function of urinary system | excretion of wastes to maintain the volume and chemical composition of blood |
| albumin/o | albumin |
| Urea | final product of protein metabolism & is chief nitrogenous waste present in urine |
| Urology | branch of medicine concerned with male genital tract & urinary tracts of both sexes |
| -ation | process |
| -esis | action, process, or result of |
| glycos/o | sugar |
| olig/o | few, scanty |
| ur/o | urine or urinary tract |
| urin/o | urine |
| -uria | urine or urination |
| What is urinary system composed of? | two kidneys, ureter (w. each kidney), bladder, urethra |
| urinary tract | organs and ducts participating in secretion and elimination of urine |
| urinary | pertaining to, secreting or containing urine, organs: produce, collect and eliminate urine |
| nephrons | kidneys functional unit, 1 million |
| ureters | how urine leaves kidneys, lead to bladder |
| urethra | canal where urine is released |
| cyst/o | bladder |
| glomerul/o | glomerulus |
| nephr/o, ren/o | kidneys |
| pyel/o | renal pelvis (collects urine) |
| ureter/o | ureter |
| urethr/o | urethra |
| cystic | pertaining to cyst, gallbladder, urinary bladder |
| renal pelvis | funnel shaped, center of kidneys |
| tubules | component of kidney |
| glomerulus | component of kidney, cluster of blood vessels surrounded by Bowman's capsule |
| glomerular filtration | initial process of in formation of urine |
| what the glomerulus do? | allows water, salts, wastes and everything except blood cells and proteins to pass through its walls |
| What does Bowman's Capsule do? | collects substances that filter through glomerular walls and passes them to the tubule |
| 3 processes of urinary system | glomerular filtration, tubular reabsorption, tubular secretion |
| Antidiuretic hormone | increases reabsorption of water by renal tubules, decreasing urine produced |
| Diabetes mellitus | endocrine disorder, glycosuria, hyperglycemia, inadequate production of insulin |
| stenosis | constriction or narrowing |
| cystocele | bladder hernia that protrudes into the vagina |
| nephrosis | degenerative changes in the kidney |
| nephrotoxic | destructive to kidney tissues |
| polycystic kidney disease | hereditary disorder characterized by hundreds of fluid-filled cysts throughout kidneys |
| polyp | tumor found on mucosal surface |
| retrograde urography | x-ray examination of renal pelvis and ureter after injection of medium, alternative to intravenous urography |
| urinary continence | inability of hold urine in bladder |
| urinary retention | inability to empty the bladder |
| voiding cystourethrogram | x-ray record of bladder and urethra |
| laparoscopic nephrectomy | removal of kidney through several small incisions in abdominal wall |
| Methods for urinary diversion | urethral, ureteral, suprapubic catheterization, percutaneous nephrostomy |
| percutaneous bladder biopsy | removal of tissue from bladder by using needle inserted through skin |
| pyelolithotomy | surgical incision of kidney to remove stone from renal pelvis |
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