Exam 52: Assisting in the Analysis of Urine

Crystal deposits are detected in urine after it has cooled.

A(n) __________ is ordered if the physician suspects that the patient has a UTI and needs to determine the most effective antibiotic to prescribe.

A child whose urine has a mousy smell most likely would be diagnosed with:

The cell most likely seen in a normal specimen is a:

Normally the medical assistant documents the presence of foam on a urine specimen.

One of the first detectable signs of renal disease is:

A medical assistant instructs a patient to collect a first morning specimen for which of the following tests?

Although urine tests are used for drug screening, the most accurate examination is performed on blood samples.

A cloudy urine specimen may be the result of which of the following?

__________ may occur as the first sign of liver disease; the urine appears yellow-brown or greenish orange.

A small amount of which of the following is always present in normal urine?

A urinometer is most frequently used to determine the specific gravity of a urine specimen in the physician's office laboratory.

A random urine sample may contain blood from vaginal contamination if the woman is __________.

Which of the following is mismatched concerning urine color and the likely pathologic cause?

__________ is the study of poisonous substances and their effects on the body.

You are instructing a patient on how to obtain and manage a urine specimen at home.What education should you provide?

When urine is fresh and warm, yeast organisms may be motile and appear to be darting about rapidly when the specimen is examined under a microscope.