Word Parts
Anatomy
Pathology
Procedures
Hodge Podge
100
nephr/o
What combining form means kidney?
100
nephron
What is the functional unit of the kidney?
100
cystitis
What term means inflammation of the bladder?
100
nephrectomy
What procedure is the surgical removal of a kidney?
100
polyuria
What term means excessive urination?
200
urin/o
What combining form means pertaining to urine?
200
ureter
What carries urine from the kidney to the bladder?
200
dysuria
What term means difficult or painful urination?
200
cystoscopy
What procedure is the visual examination of the bladder?
200
dialysis
What procedure is the removal of waste products from the blodd of patients whose kidneys no longer fuction?
300
-uria
What suffix means urination or relating to urine?
300
urethra
What carries urine from the bladder to outside the body?
300
uremia
What term meansa toxic condition caused by excessive urea and other waste products in the bloodstream?
300
urethrorrhaphy
What procedure means to suture the urethra?
300
cysotomy
What procedure means to cut into the bladder?
400
lith/o
What combining form means stone or calculus?
400
meatus
What is the external opening of a passage?
400
hyperproteinuria
What term means abnormally high concentrations of protein in the urine?
400
lithotripsy
What procedure destroys a stone by using sound waves?
400
Micturition
What term means to urinate?
500
-ectomy
What suffix means surgical removal?
500
cyst/o
What is the combining form that means bladder?
500
cystolith
What term means a stone in the urinary bladder?
500
cystopexy
What procedure is the surgical fixation of the bladder?
500
nephritis
What term means inflammation of the kidney?
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