Structure
This is a bean shaped structure that filters waste from the blood.
Kidney
This is the name for excessive urination.
Polyuria
This is the term associated with the rhythmic wavelike motion of muscle that moves waste through the digestive and urinary system.
Peristalsis
Inflamation of the bladder
Cystitis
In severe cases of renal failure this treatment are necessary to restore kidney function.
Kidney transplant
This urinary structure holds the waste material waiting to be excreted.
Bladder
This is the name for the absence of urination.
This is the name for urination at night.
Nocturia
Kidney stone
Renal calculus
A patient has gone into renal failure. What treatment are they going to receive to remove waste from the blood?
Hemodialysis
There are two of these in the urinary system that connect to the bladder.
Ureters
Hematuria
This is the name for painful urination.
Dysuria
When the kidneys stop functioning
Renal failure
If a disorder is caused by a bacteria what medication would be prescribed.
Antibiotics
Urethra
This is the name for involuntary urination.
Incontinence
This the term for the inability to empty the bladder.
Retention
Uremia
This treatment uses high energy pressure waves to break up a renal calculus.
Lithotripsy
This is the name of the filtering unit in the kidney.
Nephron
This is another term for urinate.
Void
This is the term for below normal amounts of urination.
Oliguria
An infection of any part of the urinary system.
UTI: Urinary tract infection
A patient has a renal calculus. As a healthcare provider what would you instruct the patient to do to relieve symptoms?
Increase fluids
Take pain medication
Monitor urine output