Word Parts
What combining form means kidney?
nephro
What is the functional unit of the kidney?
nephron
What term means inflammation of the bladder?
cystitis
What procedure is the surgical freeing of a kidney from adhesions?
nephrolysis
What term means excessive urination?
polyuria
What combining form pertains to urine?
uro
What carries urine from the kidney to the bladder?
Ureter
What term means scanty urination?
oliguria
What procedure is the visual examination of the bladder?
cystoscopy
What procedure removes waste products from the blood?
What suffix means urination or relating to urine?
Where is urine collected before it enters the ureters?
renal pelvis
What terms means difficult or painful urination?
dysuria
What procedure means to surture a ureter?
ureterorrhaphy
What term is also known as bed-wetting?
nocturnal enuresis
What combining form means stone or calculus?
litho
What carries urine from the bladder to outside the body?
urethra
What term means prolapse of the kidney?
nephroptosis
What procedure means to suture a ureter?
ureterorrhaphy
What term means inflammation of the renal pelvis?
pyelitis
What suffix means enlargment or stretching?
ectasis
What is the external opening of a passage or a canal?
meatus
What term means distention of a ureter?
ureterectasis
What procedure is the surgical fixation of the bladder?
cytopexy
What term means suppuration of the kidney?
nephropyosis