Word Parts
Anatomy
Pathology
Procedures
Hodge Podge
100
Nephr/o
What is a combining form that means kidney?
100
nephron
What is the functional unit of the kidney?
100
cystitis
What term means inflammation of the bladder?
100
nephrolysis
What procedure is the surgical freeing of a kidney from adhesions?
100
polyuria
What term means excessive urination?
200
Ur/o
What is a combining form that means pertaining to urine?
200
ureter
What carries urine from the kidneys to the bladder?
200
oliguria
What term means scantly urination?
200
cystoscopy
What procedure is the visual examination of the bladder?
300
-uria
What suffice means urination or relating to urine?
300
renal pelvis
What is urine collected before it enters the ureters?
300
dysuria
What term means difficult or painful urination?
300
ureterrhaphy
What procedure means to suture a ureter?
300
nocturnal enuresis
What term is also known as bed-wetting?
400
Lith/o
What is a combining form that means stone or calculus?
400
urethra
What carries urine from the bladder to the outside the body?
400
nephroptosis
What term means prolapse of the kidney?
400
lithotripsy
What procedure destroys a stone by using sound waves?
400
pyelonephritis
What term means the inflammation of the renal pelvis and kidney?
500
-Ectasis
What suffix means enlargement or stretching?
500
meatus
What is the external opening of a passage or canal?
500
ureterectasis
What term means distention of a ureter?
500
cystopexy
What procedure is the surgical fixation of the bladder?
500
nephropyosis
What term means suppuration of the kidney?
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