Test 4

azot/o

nitrogenous waste

bacteri/o

bacteria

cyst/o

urinary bladder

glomerul/o

glomerulus

glycos/o

sugar, glucose 1

home/o

sameness

hydr/o

water

-iatric

physician, medicine, treatment

keton/o

ketones

meat/o

meatus

nephr/o

kidney

noct/i

night

olig/o

scanty

protein/o

protein

pyel/o

renal pelvis

ren/o

kidney

tox/o

poison

ureter/o

ureter

urethr/o

urethra

urin/o

urine

ur/o

urine

-lith

stone

-lysis

to destroy

-ptosis

drooping

-uria

urine condition

Urinary System (genitourinary or GU)

helps maintain homeostatic pH

remove waste products

adjusting water & electrolyte levels

hematuria

blood in urine

protein in urine

proteinuria

pyuria

pus in urine

Uremia

build up of waste

Nephron

where filtration happens

dysuria

painful urine

renal corpuscle

filters blood from urine

renal tubule

where we make urine

-pexy

surgical fixation

Filtration

at the glomerulus from blood

Reabsorption

in renal tube keeps electrolytes and nutrients

Secretion

dumping anything that is a waste

carcin/o

cancer

-lithiasis

condition of stones

extra-

outside of

oliguria

abn small amounts of urine

anuria

lack of urine completely

calculus

kidney stone

cystorrhagia

abn bleeding from urinary bladder

diuresis

increase of urine

enuresis

involuntary discharge of urine

nephrolith

kidney stone

nocturia

urinating @ night

KUB

kidneys, ureters, bladder: abdominal x-ray showing them

BUN

blood urea nitrogen: test to evaluate kidney function by measuring nitrogenous waste

ESWL

extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy: use of ultras waves to break up renal calculi (crushing big kidney stones)

ARF

acute renal failure

CRF

chronic renal failure

amni/o

amnion

cervic/o

neck, cervix

chori/o

chorion

colp/o

vagina

culd/o

cul-de-sac

dilat/o

to widen

embry/o

embryo

episi/o

vulva

estr/o

female

fet/o

fetus

gynec/o

female

hymen/o

hymen

hyster/o

uterus

lact/o

milk

mamm/o

breast

mast/o

breast

men/o

menses, menstruation

metr/o

uterus

nat/o

birth

o/o

egg

oophor/o

ovary

ov/o

ovum

ov/i

ovum

ovari/o

ovary

pareun/o

sexual intercourse

perine/o

perineum

radic/o

root

salping/o

uterine tube

uter/o

uterus

vagin/o

vagina

vulv/o

vulva

-arche

beginning

menarche

a womans first period

-cyesis

state of pregnancy

-genesis

produces

-gravida

pregnancy

-para

delivered live offspring

-partum

childbirth

-salpinx

uterine tube

-tocia

labor

ante-

before, in front of

contra-

against

primi-

first

Female repro functions

Produce ova

Secretes sex hormones

Place for fertilization

Produce milk

amenorrhea

condition of having no menstrual flow

dyspareunia

condition of having painful sexual intercourse