Urine Terms
This is the term used to describe blood in the urine.
What is hematuria?
Medical term referring to the kidney.
What is renal?
This portion of the kidney is responsible for plasma filtration.
What is the glomerulus?
This color may indicate the presence of blood in the urine.
What is red, pink or brown?
The most common employed screening method for urinalysis in the clinical laboratory today?
What is urine test strips or "dipstick" testing?
DD: This term is used to describe protein in the urine.
What is proteinuria?
The term UTI stands for this.
What is urinary tract infection?
This structure of the kidney is responsible for reabsorption of water and ions to produce concentrated urine.
What is the loop of Henle?
DD: What can cause non-pathologic turbidity of a fresh urine sample?
What is mucus or squamous epithelial cells?
Specific gravity readings in excess of 1.035 would indicate this condition.
What is clearance of radiopaque dyes?
Severe reduction or total absence of urine output.
What is anuria?
DD: A normal kidney is composed of approximately this many neurons.
What is 1 - 1.5 million neurons?
DD: Blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood to the glomerulus.
What are afferent arterioles?
This pigment causes the normal yellow color of urine.
What is urochrome?
Kidneys with impaired production of ammonia will consistently produce urine with this test result.
What is low pH?
Marked increase in urine output.
What is polyuria?
The medical term for kidney stones.
What is renal calculi?
A double walled cup that houses the capillary tuft.
What is Bowman's capsule?
A urine sample received for urinalysis is markedly blue-green in color. This is a potential cause.
What are food dyes, medications or infections?
DD: Increased production of aldosterone will cause this in the plasma.
What is increased sodium?
This term is used to describe pus in the urine.
What is pyuria?
This is an enzyme produced by the kidney in response to low plasma sodium.
What is renin?
A region involved with regulating blood pressure and maintaining balance between sodium and water.
What is the juxtaglomerular apparatus?
A black colored urine specimen could be explained by this.
What is oxidation of melanogen to melanin or malignant melanoma?
Increased antidiuretic hormone (ADH) is a normal response to this common condition.
What is dehydration?