Chapter 11- Urinary

Question 1

An important nitrogen compound that’s a normal constituent of urine and blood

Answer 1

Creatinine

Question 2

A diagnostic procedure that is used to look at the bladder, collect urine samples, and examine the prostrate gland.

Answer 2

Cystoscopy

Question 3

The fluid that passes through a semipermeable membrane during dialysis

Answer 3

Dialysate

Question 4

Hardening of the renal glomerulus

Answer 4

Glomerulosclerosis

Question 5

Removed impurities or wastes from the patients blood by using an artificial kidney

Answer 5

Hemodialysis

Question 6

Having the property of suppressing the body’s immune response to antigens

Answer 6

Immunosuppressive

Question 7

Crushing of stones

Answer 7

Lithotripsy

Question 8

Toxic or damaging to the kidneys by exposure of substances including drugs, cleaning agents, etc.

Answer 8

Nephrotoxic

Question 9

Scanty urine

Answer 9

Oliguria

Question 10

Carried out in the patients own body by using a dialysate solution and the peritoneal membrane to filter out the harmful toxins and excessive fluid

Answer 10

Peritoneal dialysis

Question 11

A purulent infection of the kidney tissue and renal pelvis

Answer 11

Pyelonephritis

Question 12

Catherterization

Answer 12

Diagnostic procedure such as endoscopic examination can directly introduce organisms into urinary bladder; process of inserting an instrument into a body cavity to permit passage of fluid

Question 13

A tiny ball of microscopic blood vessels on the end of the renal tubules

Answer 13

Golmeruli

Question 14

Glomeulonephritis

Answer 14

Inflammation and swelling of the Golmeruli

Question 15

Accumulation of urine in the renal pelvis caused by obstruction, forming a cyst

Answer 15

Hydronephrosis

Question 16

Nephrectomy

Answer 16

Surgical procedure of removing a kidney or a section of a kidney

Question 17

Disorders of the kidney

Answer 17

Nephropathy

Question 18

Inflammation of glomeruli

Answer 18

Acute glomerulonephritis

Question 19

Slowly progressive, noninfectious disease that can lead to irreversible renal damage and failure

Answer 19

Chronic glomerulonephritis

Question 20

Disease of the basement membrane of the glomerulus, is 2nd to other renal diseases

Also called protein losing kidney

Answer 20

Nephrotic syndrome

Question 21

Sudden onset reduction in renal function

Answer 21

Acute renal failure

Question 22

Results from gradual loss of nephrons, irreversible

Answer 22

Chronic renal failure

Question 23

Most common renal disease

Answer 23

Pyelonephritis

Question 24

Dilation of renal pelvis caused by pressure from urine that cannot flow past an obstruction in urinary tract

Answer 24

Hydronephrosis

Question 25

Are stones formed from mineral salts

Answer 25

Renal calculi

Question 26

Both are forms of Lower UTI

Answer 26

Infectious cystitis and urethritis

Question 27

Inflammation of urinary bladder

Answer 27

Cystitis

Question 28

Inflammation of urethra

Answer 28

Urethritis

Question 29

Changes in kidney due to diabetes = glomerulosclerosis

Answer 29

Diabetic neuropathy

Question 30

Normal renal tissue replaced by grape like cysts, irreversible.

Answer 30

Polycystic kidney disease

Question 31

Difficulty when emptying bladder or urinary incontinence

Answer 31

Neurogenic bladder

Question 32

Leakage of small amounts of urine

Answer 32

Stress Incontinence

Question 33

Azotemia

Answer 33

An excess of urea or other nitrogenous bodies in the blood