MMSC200 Exam 2 Questions and Verified Answers-
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Spa gr is the abbreviation for: - Correct answer specific gravity
What is specific gravity? - Correct answer a comparison of the density of urine with that water
What does the specific gravity of urine reflect? - Correct answer the amount of waste, minerals, and solids in urine
The abbreviation for voiding cystourethrogram is: - Correct answer VCUG
What is voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG)? - Correct answer a diagnostic procedure that can reveal abnormalities of the bladder
What occurs during a VCUG? - Correct answer the bladder is filled with contrast material and x-rays are taken of the bladder and urethra as the patient expels urine
A combining form for stone is: - Correct answer lath/o
What is kept/o? - Correct answer ketone bodies
What is azote/o? - Correct answer nitrogen
What is a lithotripsy? - Correct answer a procedure that crushes urinary tract stones
What is a pyelolithotomy? - Correct answer a surgical procedure to remove a large stone from the renal pelvis
What is nephrolithiasis? - Correct answer the presence of kidney stones
The combining form for meatus is: - Correct answer meat/o
What is the meatus? - Correct answer the external opening of the urethra through which urine leaves the body
Page 1 of 23 The combining form for renal pelvis is: - Correct answer peel/o
What is retrograde pyelogram? - Correct answer an x-ray imaging study of the kidneys, ureters, and bladder using contrast material
What is pyelonephritis? - Correct answer a bacterial urinary tract infection
What is pyelolithotomy? - Correct answer a surgical incision into the renal pelvis to remove a large stone
A combining form for the urinary bladder is: - Correct answer cyst/o
The suffix meaning condition of urine is: - Correct answer -urea
What is puree? - Correct answer pus in the urine
What is polyuria? - Correct answer excessive urination
What is hematuria? - Correct answer blood in the urine
What is dysuria? - Correct answer painful urination
The term for kidney disorder is: - Correct answer nephropathy
Albumin in the urine is called: - Correct answer albuminuria
What is albumin? - Correct answer a protein in the blood
What does albuminuria/proteinuria indicate? - Correct answer kidney malfunction
______________ is the inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney - Correct answer glomerulonephritis
The use of shock waves to crush urinary tract stones is called: - Correct answer lithotripsy
What is -trips? - Correct answer to crush
Page 2 of 23 What is extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL)? - Correct answer the use of shock waves directed toward the stone from outside the body; once the stone is crushed, it can pass from the body in urine
A major sign of diabetes mullets, detected in urinalysis, is glucose (sugar) in the urine, or: - Correct answer glycosuria
What is diabetes mellitus? - Correct answer the inadequate secretion or ineffective use of insulin
What happens if someone lacks insulin? - Correct answer the sugar cannot leave
the bloodstream to be used as energy in the body
A smoky red color to the urine is indicative of blood in the urine, or: - Correct answer hematuria
What is a cystoscopy? - Correct answer the visual examination of the bladder by means of a lighted instrument inserted into the urethra
What is the most common diagnostic procedure for bladder abnormalities? - Correct answer cystoscopy
The use of an artificial kidney machine to remove waste materials from the bloodstream when the kidneys no longer function is: - Correct answer hemodialysis (HD)
How does hemodialysis (HD) work? - Correct answer uses a machine to filter blood and then return the dialyzed blood to the patient's bloodstream
How does peritoneal dialysis (PD) work? - Correct answer uses a peritoneal catheter to put a special fluid into the abdomen
How are waste products from dialysis passed? - Correct answer into the fluid from the bloodstream and then drained from the body
What does magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) do? - Correct answer can help detect small renal tumors by producing images using a magnetic field and radio waves
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