Exam 15: The Urinary System

Identify the combining form cyst/o with its closest definition.

A specialist in diseases of the lower urinary tract, bladder, and urethra, is called a ____________________.

The physician would use this abbreviation to order this blood test to determine the level of urea in the blood.

The urinary system is also known as the renal or ____________________ system.

Identify the combining form meat/o with its closest definition.

Identify the combining form ureter/o with its closest definition.

Urine is produced by ____________________.

A blood test to detect ___________ is routinely performed on infants.

A urinary tract infection or UTI can occur in any of the following EXCEPT __________.

The patient cannot control his urine or feces. The nurse would document this as __________.

The ureters enter the bladder through the ____________________.

The part of the urinary system that is responsible for removing dissolved waste and other substances from the blood and urine is (are) __________.

Secretion of urine can be controlled with anticholinergics and ____________________.

A procedure that allows a physician to look into the bladder and examine its interior is termed a ____________________.

A retrograde pyelogram is an x-ray of the __________.

The removal of the bladder, usually when cancer is present, is a __________.

A glomerulus is a group of ____________________.

Atresia can refer to __________.

Identify the combining form ur/o with its closest definition.

Cystorrhaphy is bladder __________.