AUBF Lab Stool&Urine MicroMacro Flashcards
Human feces is called as
STOOL
Feces: latin term ______ meaning RESIDUE.
faex
It is the waste residue of indigestible materials of an animal’s digestive tract expelled through the anus during defecation.
Stool
______ is newborn’s first feces.
Meconium
______ or ________ is the study of feces.
SCATOLOGY or CAPROLOGY
COMPOSITION of stool
o 3/4 Water, 1/4 Solid
Undigested and Unabsorbed food
Intestinal secretions, Mucous Bile
pigments and Salts
Bacteria and Inorganic material
Epithelial cells, Leukocytes
Stool collection: Stool should be collected in a (3) container.
dry, sterilized, wide mouthed
Stool collection: It should be _______ with Urine or any other body secretions.
uncontaminated
Stool collection: Properly _____ and always a ______ sample should be tested.
named; fresh
MACROSCOPIC EXAMINATION of stool includes: (6)
o Volume
o Color
o Consistency
o Odor
o Blood, Mucous
o Parts of parasite and Adult parasite
Human fecal matter is normally ______ in color which result from a combination of ____ and _____
yellowish brown; bile and bilirubin
Variation of stool colors (8)
o Bright Red/Maroon o Blood streak
o Yellow
o Green
o Black Blue o Tan/Clay
o White
o Pale greasy
Exclusively breast fed infants pass ____ and ____ or _____ and _____ stool.
loose and green or pasty and yellow
Infants fed on cows’ milk preparations pass stools of a _____ color and of a much
______ consistency
paler yellow; firmer
Babies fed on newer modified cows’ milk
preparations have ____ colored or ______
stools.
clay; greenish
Some healthy children may pass frequent,
______ stools containing undigested vegetable matter called as ______ diarrhea.
loose; Toddler’s
Separate hard lumps, like nuts. Hard to pass
Type 1
Sausage-shaped but lumpy
Type 2
Like sausage but with cracks on the surface
Type 3
Like sausage or snake, smooth and soft
Type 4
Soft blobs with clear-cut edges.
Passed easily
Type 5
Fluffy pieces with ragged edges, a mushy stool
Type 6
Watery, no solid pieces. Entirely Liquid.
Type 7
Stool odor: Basically depends on the ____ of the stool and _______ and ______ are the substances that produce normal odor formed by Intestinal bacterial fermentation and putrefaction.
pH; INDOLE and SKETOLE