Urine terminology
Painful or difficult urination
What is dysuria
The term for excessive urination (more than 1500 ml in 24 hours)
What is polyuria?
Hidden or concealed - is this case, old blood; suspected when stool changes from brown to dark or black
What is occult?
What is black?
Disorder in which the focus is on remaining thin; restriction of food intake
What is anorexia?
Urinating during the night
What is nocturia?
A decreased amount of urine output (less than 400 ml every 24 hours)
What is oliguria?
An opening
What is a stoma?
The color of stool if food is passing quickly through the GI track due to diarrhea (bile is not breaking down)
What is green?
Bowel resection, or removal of the large bowel
What is colectomy?
Another word for bedwetting
What is enuresis?
Urine that is left in the bladder after urination
What is residual urine?
Difficulty swallowing
What is dysphagia?
The color of stool when there is excess fat due to malabsorption, causing a greasy four smelling stool
What is yellow?
Stool with an abnormally high fat content that floats on water
What is steatorrhea?
Stopping an activity and the urge to void
What is suppression?
The most common symptom of overactive bladder - the feeling of needing to void
What is urgency?
An artificial opening (stoma) created in the large intestine and brought to the surface of the abdomen to empty the bowel.
What is a colostomy?
The color of stool when there is bleeding in the lower GI tract
What is bright red?
Discharged fecal matter
What is effluent?
Blood in the urine
What is hematuria?
The increased production of urine
What is diuresis?
The action caused by muscle fibers in a tubular organ that propels contents through the organs in waves
What is peristalsis?
The color of stool when there is lack of bile
Inflammation or infection in one or more small pouches in the digestive track, also called diverticulitis
What is dyspepsia?