Question | Answer |
py/o | Pus |
ren/o | Kidney |
pyel/0 | Renal Pelvis |
Ket/o | Ketone bodies |
PKD | Polycystic Kidney Disease |
-poietin | Substance that forms |
-tripsy | crushing |
ur/o | Urine |
dips/o | thirst |
kal/o | potassium |
VCUG | Voiding cystourethrogram |
azot/o | Nitrogen |
KUB | Kidney Ureter and Bladder |
trigon/o | trigone |
bacteri/o | bacteria |
ESRD | End-stage Rental Disease |
UA | Urinalysis |
UTI | Urinary Tract Infection |
cyst/o | Urinary Bladder |
olig/o | scanty |
noct/o | night |
vesic/o | Urinary Bladder |
Urethr/o | Urethra |
Calic/o | Calyx |
albumin/o | albumin |
CRF | Chronic Renal Failure |
glomerul/o | glomerulus |
urin/o | urine |
-uria | Urination or Urine Condition |
keton/o | Ketone Bodies |
lith/o | Stone |
natr/o | sodium |
nephr/o | Kidney |
meat/o | meatus |
ADH | Antidiruetic hormone Vasopressin |
CATH | Catheter or Catheterization |
ARF | Acute Renal Failure |
CKD | Chronic Kidney Disease |
Cali/o | Calyx |
Ureter/o | Ureter |
A bean shaped organ behind the abdominal cavity on either side of the spine in the lumbar region. | Kidney |
Carries urine that was collected in the renal pelvis and flows through and into the bladder. | Ureter |
Thin muscular tube that carries urine from the urinary bladder to the outside of the body. | Urethra |
A hollow muscular sac that is a temporary reservoir for urine | Urinary bladder |
What are the names of the two external structures of the kidney? | Fibrous Capsule and Hilum |
What transports urine? | ureters |
What are the 3 steps in the formation of urine? | Filtration,Reabsorption and Secretion |
What are the internal parts of the kidney? | Renal Medulla, Renal Cortex, and Renal Pelvis |
What is the basin-like area in the central part of the Kidney? | Renal Pelvis |
The functional unit of the kidney is? | Nephron |
What is the most abundant waste product that is excreted by the Kidneys? | Urea |
What is the anatomical structure that transports urine out of the body? | Uretha |
What is the tiny cup-like structure that filters sugar, water, salts and Urea and waste? | Bowman Capsule |
Tiny Coiled and intertwined smaller blood vessels. | Glomeruli |
Urination and voiding is also known as | micturition |
Kidney becomes extremly dilated, Caused by a stone. | Hydronephrosis |
Inflammation of the Urethra is? | urethritis |
Toxic state which results when nitrogenous waste accumulates abnormally in the blood. Urine and blood mix | Uremia |
A common test that checks different aspects of urine? | Urinalysis |
Inflammation of the glomeruli within the kidney caused by streptococcal infection? | glomerulonephritis |
Kidney stones or remal calculi? | Nephrolithiasis |
Kidney contains masses of cysts. Fluid like sacs? | PKD...Polycystic kidney Disease |
Renal Cell carcinoma..Cancerous tumor of the kidney in adults? | hypernephroma |
Malignant tumor of the kidney in children? | Wilms Tumor |
Inflammation of the Renal Pelvis? | pyelitis |
What are two types of Renal failure? | Acute and Chronic |
Inflammation of the lining of the Renal Pelvis? | Pyelonephritis |
Inflammation of the Urerhra is? | Urethritis |
Loss of control of the passage of urine from the bladder? | Incontienece |
Inadequate secretion or improper utilization of insulin? | Diabetes Mellitus |
X-ray of the kidneys without contrast is? | KUB..Kidney, Urthers and Bladder |
X-ray of the kidney with contrast dye while the paitent is voiding is? | VCUG...Voiding Cystourethrogram |
Test to look inside the bladder an urethra is? | cystoscopy |
What are the two types of Dialysis? | Hemodialysis and Peritoneal |
Medical procedure that breaks up stones via sonic vibration? | Lithotripsy |
Dilation of Arteries, | Renal Angioplasty |
Passage of a flexible tubluar instrument through the urethra into the urinary bladder. | Urinary catheterization |
Nitrogrnous waste | Urea |