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Urinalysis and Body Fluids Exam Study
Guide with Complete Solutions
A patient with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus will most likely have - ✔️✔️pale urine with
high specific gravity
-High specific gravity is due to the glucose in the urine. People w/diabetes have
polyuria, so the volume of urine dilutes the urochrome (color), making it pale.
Urine specimen of a baby is giving a "mousy" ordor. What is it? - ✔️✔️Phenylpyruvic acid
-Phenylkentonuria is genetic disorder results in a mousy odor.
Urine specimen that gives off a "fruity" odor? - ✔️✔️Acetone
Urine specimen with an ammonia odor? - ✔️✔️Bacterial infection
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**ammonia is byproduct of urea breakdown
Urine specimen with no odor, but has a red color? - ✔️✔️Porphyrin
Urine with a black pigment - ✔️✔️Melanin
Urine with a amber/brown color - ✔️✔️Bilirubin
Urine from a 50-year-old man was noted to turn dark red on standing. This change is
caused by: - ✔️✔️Porphyrins
-The 2 pigments in urine is porphrin and urochrome. Urochrome is the "urine color"
which is yellow and porphyrin is red
Milky urine from a 24 year old woman would most likely contain - ✔️✔️Many WBCs
-Women's urine will be milky due to UTIs, in which many WBCs are present
Urine that has a green/brown pigment - ✔️✔️Bile
Urine that is red or white in color - ✔️✔️RBCs
Red urine may be due to: - ✔️✔️myoglobin
**a protein that carries and stores oxygen in the muscle cells
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Dark urine while standing may be due to - ✔️✔️Homogentistic acid
Urine specimen from healthy 25 year old was cloudy after he ate a meal. Everything
was normal on reagent strip analysis. The cause of the cloudy turbidity is due to -
✔️✔️Phosphates
-Since he is healthy, the turbidity is nonpathologic. After meals, urine is more alkaline;
referred to alkaline tide. Due to the pH, amorphous phosphate may be found
What metabolic disease will turn the urine dark brown to black upon standing -
✔️✔️Alkaptonuria
- the uric acid with turn black on standing
Urine osmalaity is related to - ✔️✔️Specific gravity
Urine specific gravity is an index of the ability of the kidney to - ✔️✔️Concentrate the
urine
Osmality is a measure of - ✔️✔️dissolved particles, including ions
A patient urine sample has an increased protein and a high specific gravity. Which of
the following would be a more accurate measure of urine concentration - ✔️✔️Osmolality
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