Word Parts
Nephr/o
What combining form means kidney?
Nephron
What is the functional unit of the kidney?
Cystitis
What term means inflammation of the bladder?
Nephrolysis
What procedure is the surgical freeing of a kidney from adhesions?
Polyuria
What term means excessive urination?
Ur/o
What combining form means pertaining to urinate?
Ureter
What carries urine from the kidney to the bladder?
Oliguria
What term means scanty urination?
Cystoscopy
What procedure is the visual examination of the bladder?
Dialysis
What procedure removes waste products from the blood?
Uria
What suffix means urination or relating to urine?
Renal Pelvis
Where is urine collected before it enters the ureters?
What term means difficult or painful urination?
ureterorrhaphy
What procedure means to suture a ureter?
Nocturnal enuresis
What term is also known as bed-wetting?
Lith/o
What is the combining form means stone or calculus?
Urethra
What carries urine from the bladder to outside the body?
Nephroptosis
What term means prolapse of the kidney?
Lithotripsy
What procedure destroys a stone by using sound waves?
Pyelonephritis
What term means inflammation of the renal pelvis and kidney?
What suffix means enlargement or stretching?
Meatus
What is the external opening of a passage or canal?
Ureterectasis
What term means distention of a ureter?
Cystopexy
What procedure is the surgical fixation of the bladder?
Nephropyosis
What term means suppuration of the kidney?