Urinary System

Kidneys

100

We have this many kidneys

Two.

200

Inflammation of the kidneys

What is nephritis?

300

The kidneys are responsible for balance in the body. Name the medical term for balance

What is homeostasis?

400

What shape is the kidney?

The shape of a kidney bean.

500

You can live without your kidneys only if you go on ________________.

Dialysis

Where do I go?

100

I go from the urinary bladder to the outside world.

What is the Urethra?

200

We carry urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder.

What are the ureters?

300

I can hold up to 16 ounces of urine before it passes through to the urethra.

What is the urinary bladder?

400

Implantation of a donated kidney is called this

Renal or kidney transplant

500

The functional unit of the kidney.

What is the nephron?

Medical Terminology

100

Surgical fixation of the kidney

Nephropexy

200

Surgical repair of the urethra

The urethroplasty

300

A ureteral stone

What is ureterolith?

400

Surgical removal of the kidney

What is nephrectomy?

500

Inflammation of the bladder

What is cystitis?

Abbreviations

100

UC is the abbreviation for what?

What is urine culture?

200

KUB is the abbreviation for this diagnostic test

What is are the kidneys, ureters, and bladder?

300

This is the abbreviation for acute renal failure

What is ARF?

400

This is the abbreviation for cystoscopy

What is cysto?

500

The abbreviation for genitourinary

What is GU?

Name the Term

100

This is the word for blood in the urine

What is hematuria?

200

This is the term for painful or difficult urination?

What is dysuria?

300

The process of crushing a kidney stone

nephrolithotripsy

400

We are the three main parts of the kidney.

What are the medulla, the cortex, and the renal pelvis?

500

This is the term for blood in the urine.

What is hematuria?