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Glossary Case # 5
Hillcrest Transcription, Case # 5 The Urinary System
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| atrophy | a wasting away; a reduction in the size of cell, tissue, organ or tother body part due to a variety of factors such as malnutrition an/or ischemia |
| autonomic | self-controlling, self-governing; functionally independent |
| Bactrim DS | trade name for a conbination antibiotic and sulfonamide anti-infective used for urinary tract, respiratory tract, and ear infections |
| bruit | a sound or murmur heard on ascultation, especially an abnormal one; primaryly used in the plural, buits |
| BUN | abbreviation for blood urea nitrogn (a laboratory test done on blood) |
| carotid | the main artery on eiether side of the neck that supplies blood to the head and neck |
| CBC | abbreviation for complete blood count |
| cholecystectomy | surgical removal of the gallbladder |
| copora anylacea | small hyaline masses of degenerate cells found in the prostate (sing, copus amylaceum) |
| creatinine | a waste product of protein metabolism excreted in the urine; a blood test to check kidney function |
| cystourethroscope | an instrument for examining the urinary bladder and posterior urethra |
| cystourethroscopy | process of visually examining the urinary blader and posterior urethra |
| diverticulum | an abnormal, cirumscribed pouch or sac in the intestinal wall (pl. diverticula) |
| dysuria | painful or difficult urination |
| efflux | a flowing out of emanating |
| electrocardiogram (EKG) | a graphic tracing of the electrical changes in heart muscle (sometimes abbreviated ECG) |
| Foley catheter | a catheter placed int the bladder and retained by a balloon for the urpose of draining urine from the baldder, trade name |
| French scale | a scale used for indication the sized of catheters and other tubular instrucments, based on a measurement of each unit being approximately equvalent to 0.33 mm in diameter i.e. 1 mm= #3 French |
| gastrointesinal (GI) | pertaining to the stocmach and intestine |
| granuloma (sing) | a tumorlike mass or nodule consisting of granulation tissue (pl. granulomata) |
| granulomatous | composed of graulomata |
| hyperplasia | an abnormal increase in the number of cells in a tissue or organ |
| hypotension | abnormally low blood pressure |
| Hytrin | trande name for terazosin, an anthypertensive drug |
| induration | the quality of tissue or an organ being hard; the processs of hardening |
| indwell | to dwell in ; reside within |
| lithiasis | the fromation of calculi or mineral concretion (solidified masses) within the body |
| lithotomy | incision of a duct or organ, often the urinary bladder, for removal of caculi (stones) |
| optic fundi | pertaining to the back of the interior of the eyes |
| orifice | the opening of any cavity in the body |
| orthostatic | pertaining to or caused by and upright position |
| prostate | a gland in the male that surrounds the neck of the ruinary bladder and the urethra |
| prothrombin | a factor in the blood plasma that combines with calcium to form thrombin during blood clotting |
| PTT | partial trhomboplasin time; one laboratory test to determine how fast the blood clots |
| rale (Fr) | an abnormal respiratory sound heard on auscultation, indicatin some pathologic condition; primarily used int he plural form; rales |
| renal | pertaining to the kidney |
| resect | to surgially remove part of an organ or tissue |
| resectoscope | an endoscopic instrument used for transurethral removal or biopsy of lesion of bladder, prstate, or urethra |
| sphincter | a ring-sahped muscle that can open or close a natural orifice by expanding or contracting. |
| splenomegaly | enlarment of the spleen |
| stroma | the supporting tissue fo an organ, as distinguised from its functional element |
| trabeculate | marked with cross bars |
| trabeculation | the formation of trabeculae (strands of connective tissue) in a part |
| transurethral resection (TUR) | a surgical procedure to relieve urinary obastruction by reaming out the enlarmed part of the gland that is encroaching on the urethra an dblocking the outflow or urine |
| van Buren sounds | surgical instruments used to dilate a structure or to detect a foreign body, name after Dr. William va Buren |
| void (V) | to eliminate a waste matter |
| Wheeze | and abnormal wishtling sound made during respiration |
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