Word Parts
What combining form means kidney?
nephr/o
What is the functional unit of the kidney?
nephron
What term means inflammation of the bladder?
cystitis
What procedure is the surgical freeing of a kidney from adhesions?
nephrolysis
What term means excessive urination?
What combining form means pertaining to urine?
ur/o
What carries urine from the kidney to the bladder?
ureter
What term means scanty urination?
oliguria
What procedure is the visual examination of the bladder?
cystoscopy
What procedure removes waste products from the blood?
dialysis
What suffix means urination or relating to urine?
-uria
Where is urine collected before it enters the ureters?
renal pelvis
What term means difficult or painful urination?
dysuria
What is a set of x-ray images of the kidney, ureters, and bladder with intravenous contrast medium?
intravenous pyelogram
What term is also known as bed-wetting?
nocturnal enuresis
What combining form means stone or calculus?
lith/o
What carries urine from the bladder to outside of the body?
urethra
What term means the sudden inability of the kidneys to perform their functions?
acute renal failure
What procedure destroys a stone by using sound waves?
extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy
What term means inflammation of the renal pelvis and kidney?
pyelonephritis
What suffix means breakdown or destruction?
-lysis
What is the external opening of the urethra?
urethral meatus
What term means a kidney located in an abnormal position?
ectopic kidney
What procedure is the removal of excess tissue from an enlarged prostate with the use of a resectoscope?
transurethral prostatectomy
What term means suppuration of the kidney?
pyonephrosis