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