Diseases
Multiple fluid-filled sacs (cysts) within and on the kidney
What is PKD (polycystic kidney disease)?
What is the procedure that creates an x-ray image with contrast of the urinary bladder and urethra obtained while the patient is voiding?
What is the Voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG)?
What does urethro/o mean?
What is the urethra?
What is the name of a malignant tumor of the urinary bladder?
What is Bladder Cancer?
What is the outer region of the kidney?
The cortex.
Renal calculi
What is nephrolithiasis?
What is the procedure where an X-ray examination (without contrast) of the kidneys, ureters, and bladder occurs?
What is the kidneys, ureters, and bladder (KUB) Test?
What does trigon/o mean?
What is the trigone?
High blood pressure resulting from kidney disease.
What is renal hypertension?
What is the inner region of the kidney?
The medulla.
Malignant tumor of the kidney occurring in childhood.
What is a Wilms tumor?
What is the procedure where the urinary tract stones are crushed?
What is Lithotripsy?
What does ket/o, keton/o mean?
Ketone bodies
What are kidney stones called?
What is nephrolithiasis?
What is the name of the enclosing structure around each glomerulus?
What is the glomerular capsule?
Cancerous tumor of the kidney in adulthood.
What is hypernephroma (renal cell carcinoma)?
An X-ray examination with contrast of blood vessels of the kidney
What is Renal angiography?
What does kal/I mean?
Potassium
What is the condition where ADH is not secreted, or there is a resistance of kidney to ADH?
What is Diabetes Insipidus (DI)?
What is the central collecting region in the kidney?
What is the renal pelvis?
Decrease in excretion of wastes results from impaired filtration function.
What is renal failure?
What is the test that meaures the rate at which creatinine is cleared from the blood by the kidney?
What is the Creatinine Clearance test?
What does noct/o mean?
Night
What is the inflammation of the glomeruli within the kidney called?
What is glomerulonephritis?
What is the other name of the glomerular capsule?
What is the Bowman capsule?