Medical Therapeutics UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Medical Therapeutics
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Medical Therapeutics
Medical Therapeutics UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Explain what happens in uremia. - Correct Answer- Literally urine (waste products) in the
bloodstream
What is the purpose of an I & O record? - Correct Answer- Estimate fluid balance; analyze
medical issues
What is a Foley cathe...
Medical Therapeutics UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Explain what happens in uremia. - Correct Answer- Literally urine (waste products) in the
bloodstream
What is the purpose of an I & O record? - Correct Answer- Estimate fluid balance; analyze
medical issues
What is a Foley catheter? - Correct Answer- Indwelling catheter kept in place by balloon
Which stool would be more liquid-from an ascending colostomy or a
descending colostomy? - Correct Answer- Ascending
Describe how a healthy stoma would look. - Correct Answer- Pinkish/red and moist
What is urinary retention? - Correct Answer- Urine is "stuck" in the bladder
How would you treat renal failure? - Correct Answer- Can treat with dialysis but can only
cure with transplant
What does cystitis mean? - Correct Answer- Inflammation of the bladder
What is renal calculi? - Correct Answer- Kidney stones
Which section of the kidneys contains most of the nephrons? - Correct Answer- Cortex
What is the name of the tube that goes from the bladder to the outside of the body? - Correct
Answer- Urethra
, What are rugae? - Correct Answer- Folds in the lining of the bladder
The urine is made of ________% water. - Correct Answer- 95
When would lithotripsy be used? - Correct Answer- To treat kidney stones
Two muscular tubes that extend from the kidneys to the bladder - Correct Answer- Ureters
Tube that carries urine from bladder to the outside - Correct Answer- urethra
uffix meaning blood - Correct Answer- -emia
Term meaning condition of or abnormal state - Correct Answer- -ia
Hollow muscular sac that stores the urine - Correct Answer- bladder
Microscopic filtering unit in the kidney - Correct Answer- nephron
Term meaning renal pelvis of kidney - Correct Answer- pyel-
C-shaped structure surrounding the glomerulus - Correct Answer- Bowman's capsule
External opening through which urine leaves the body - Correct Answer- Urinary meatus
Term meaning pus - Correct Answer- py-
Notched area through which the ureter, nerves, and vessels enter and leave the kidney -
Correct Answer- hilum
Two bean shaped organs located on either side of the vertebral column - Correct Answer-
kidneys
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