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Advanced Pharm
Adv Pharm YBI Chap 27 Terms
Question | Answer |
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Anorexia | Loss of appetite |
Incontinence | Inability to hold or retain urine |
Pyuria | Pus in the urine |
Ascites | Abnormal accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity |
Urinary frequency | Frequent urination |
Nocturia | Excessive urination at night |
Hematuria | Blood in the urine |
Replacement therapy | Therapeutic replacement of lost body substances |
Malaise | Discomfort or a nonspecific feeling of uneasiness, often a sign of illness |
Diuresis | Loss of water in the body |
Kernicterus | Jaundice occuring in infants during the second to eighth day of life |
Solute | Substance dissolved in a solution or in body fluids |
Lethargy | Feeling of sluggishness |
Enuresis | Involuntary discharge of urine after an age when bladder control should be achieved; usually called "bedwetting" |
Oliguria | Scanty urination |
Urgency | Sudden, uncontrollable need to urinate |
Dysuria | Painful urination |
Electrolyte | Substance that uncouples into loss in solutions and then conducts an electrical charge |
Solvent | Liquid in which substances are dissolved |