Chapter 11

Question 1

Radiographic imaging of the urinary bladder

Answer 1

Cystography

Question 2

An instrument used for examining the urinary bladder and ureters that is equipped with a light, a viewing obturator, and a lumen for passing catheters

Answer 2

Cystoscope

Question 3

The inability to refrain from yielding to the normal impulse to defecate or urinate

Answer 3

Incontinence

Question 4

A posture in which knees are flexed and thighs abducted and rotated externally

Answer 4

Lithotomy position

Question 5

The area of the male penis that meets the scrotum

Answer 5

Penoscrotal junction

Question 6

Pertaining to the area between the anus and the scrotum in the male and the vulva and the anus in the female

Answer 6

Perineal

Question 7

Backward flow; usually unnatural, as when urine travels back up the ureter

Answer 7

Reflux

Question 8

Moving in the direction that is the opposite of what is normal

Answer 8

Retrograde

Question 9

A circular band of muscle constricting an orifice, which contracts to close the opening

Answer 9

Sphincter

Question 10

A firm catheter inserted into the ureter attached to a cystoscope

Answer 10

Ureteral catheter

Question 11

The action of emptying urine from the bladder

Answer 11

Void