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| partition separating the right and left nasal cavities. |
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| lined with mucos membrane and fine hairs. It acts as a filter to moisten ad warm the entering air. |
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| air cavities within the cranial bones that open into the nasal cavities. |
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| serves as a food and air passageway. Air enters from the nasal cavities and passes through the pharynx to the larynx. Food enters the pharynx from the mouth and passes into the esophagus. |
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| lymphoid tissue lovated behind the mouth |
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| lymphoid tissue located behind the mouth. |
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| flap of cartilage that automatically covers the opening of and keeps food from entering the larynx during swallowing. |
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| one of two branches from the trachea that conducts air into the lungs, where it divides and subdivides. The branchings resemble a tree, herefore they are referred to as a bronchail tree. |
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| smallest subdivision of the bronchial tree. |
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| air sacs at the end of the bronchioles. Oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged through the alveolar walls and the capillaries |
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| two spongelike organs in the thoracic cavity. The right lung consists of three lobes, and the left has two lobes |
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| serous membrane covering each lung adn lining the thoracic cavity |
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| muscular partition that separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity. It aids in the breathing process |
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| space between the lungs. It contains the heart, esophagus, trachea, great blood vessels, and other structures. |
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| surgical puncture to aspirated fluid (with a sterile needle) |
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| stretching out, diation, expansion |
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| instument used to measure |
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| surgical fixation, suspension |
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| instrument used for visual examination |
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| pertaining to visual examination |
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| sudden, involuntary muscle contraction |
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| constriction or narrowing |
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| creation of an artificail opening |
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| inflammation of the adenoids |
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| incomplete expansion (of the lung of a new born or collapsed lung) |
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| inflammation of the bronchi |
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| cancerous tumore originating in the bronchus |
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| diseased state of the bronchi and lungs |
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| inflammation of the epigottis |
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| inflammation of the larynx |
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| laryngothracheobronchitis |
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| inflammation of the larynx, trachea, and bronchi |
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| pertaing to the lobes; diseased state of the lung (infection of one or more loves of the lung.) |
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| inflammation of the nose and pharynx |
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| inflammation of all sinuses |
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| inflammation of the pleura (also called pleurisy) |
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| hernia of the lung (lung tissue protrudes through the chest) |
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| abnormal condition of dust in the lungs |
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| diseased state of the lung |
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| air in the chest, which causes collapse of the lung |
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| pertaining to a tumor of new growth in the lung |
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| abnormal condition of fungus in the nose |
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rapid flow of blood from the nose
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| inflammation of the tonsils |
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| inflammation of the trachea |
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| adult respiratory distress |
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| respiratory failure in an adult as a result of disease or injury. Symptoms include dyspnea, rapid breathing, adn cyanosis. AKA-acute respiratory distress syndrome |
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| respiratory disease characterized by paroxysms of coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath |
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| chronic obstructive pulmonary disease |
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| a group of disorders that are almost always a result of smoking that obstructs bronchial flow. One or mroe of the following is present: emphysema, chronic bronchitis, brochospasm, and bronchiolitis |
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fugal disease affecting the lungs and sometimes other organs of the body
AKA- valley fever, or cocci |
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| serious cardiac disease associated with chronic lung disorders, such as emphysema |
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| condition resulting form acute obstruction of the larynx, characterized by a barking cough, hoarseness, and stidor. It may be caused by viral or bacterial infection, allergy, or foreign body. Occurs mainly in children. |
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| hereditary disorder of the endocrine glads characterized by excess mucus production in the repiratory tract, pancreatic deficiency, and other symptoms |
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| one part of the nasal cavity is smaller because of malformaion or injury |
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| stretching of lung tissue caused by the alveoli becoming distended and losing elasticity |
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nosebleed
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| highly infectious respiratory disease caused by a virus |
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| a lobar pneumonia caused by the bacerium |
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| reptitive pharyngeal collapse during sleep which leads to absence of breathing |
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| respiratory disease characterized by an acute crowing inspiration, or whoop (synonymous with whooping cough) |
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| escape of fluid into the pleural space as a result of inflammation |
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| Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia |
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| a pneumonia caused by P. carinii, a fungus common disease in patients with AIDS |
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| fluid accumulation in the alveoli and bronchioles |
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| foreign matter, such as a blood clot, air, or fat clot, carried in the circulation to the pulmonary artery, where it blocks circulation |
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| an infectious disease, caused by an acid-fast bacillus, most commonly spread by inhalation of small particles and usually affecting the lungs |
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| upper respiratory infection |
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| infection of the nasal cavity, pharynx, or larynx |
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| surgical instrument used to cut the adenoids |
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| surgical repair of a bronchus |
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| surgical repair of the larynx |
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| creation of an artificial opening into the larynx |
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| incision of the larynx and trachea |
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| surgical fixation of the pleura |
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| incision of lung and bronchus |
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| surgical repair of the nose |
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| surgical repair of the (nasal) septum |
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| incision into the (nasal) septum |
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| surgical puncture to aspirate fluid from the chest cavity |
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| incision into the chest cavity |
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| surgical repair of the trachea |
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| creation of an artificial opening into teh trachea |
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| instrument used for visual examination of the bronchi |
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| visual examination of the bronchi |
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| instrument used for visual examination within (a hollow organ or body cavity). |
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| pertaining to visual examination withing a hollow organ or body cavity. |
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| visual examination within a hollow organ or body cavity. |
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| instument used for visual examination of the larynx |
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| visual examination of the larynx |
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| instument used for visual examination of the thorax |
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| visual examination of the thorax |
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| instrument used to measure carbo dioxide |
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| instrument used to measure carbo dioxide |
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| instrument used to measure oxygen |
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| instument used to measure breathing or lung volumes |
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| a measurement of breathing or lung volumes |
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| process of recording many (tests) during sleep |
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| absense (deficiency) of oxygen |
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| condition of absence (less than normal level) of carbon dioxide (in the blood) |
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| pertaining t the brochi and alveoli |
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| spasmodic contraction in teh bronchi |
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| pertaining to the diaphragm |
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| pertaining to within the trachea |
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| condition of excessive carbon dioxide in the blood |
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| condition of deficient carbon dioxide in the blood |
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| dificient oxygen in the blood |
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| deficient oxygen (to the tissue) |
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| pertaining to within the pleura |
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| spasmodic contradiction of the larynx |
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| spasmodic contraction of the larynx |
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| pertaining to the nose and phaynx |
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| able to breathe only in an upright position |
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| discharge from the nose (as in a cold) |
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| passageway by which air enters and leaves the lungs as well as a mechanical device used to keep the air passageway unobstructed |
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| deprivation of oxygen for tissue use; suffocation |
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| to withdraw fluid or to suction as well as to draw foreign material into the respiratory tract |
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| agent causing narrowing of the bronchi |
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| agent causing the bronchi to widen |
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| sudden, noisy expulsion of air from the lung |
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| sudded catching of breath with a spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm AKA- hiccough |
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| ventilation of the lungs beyond normal needs |
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| ventilation of the lungs that does not fulfill the body's gas exchange needs |
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| containing both mucus and pus |
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| device that creates a mist used to deliver medication for giving repiratory treatment |
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| an infection acquired during hospitalizaiton |
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| open (an airway must be patent) |
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| mucous secretion from the lungs, bronchi, and trachea expelled through the mouth |
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| mechanical device used to assist with or substitute for breathing when patient cannot breathe unassisted |
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| two bean-shaped organs located on each side of the vertebral column on the posterier wall of the abdominal cavity behind the parietal peritoneum. Their function is to remove waste products from the blood and to aid in maintaining water adn electrolyte balance. |
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| urine-producing microscopic structure. |
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| cluster of capillaries at the entrance of the nephron. The process of fliltering the blood thereby forming urine, begins here. |
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| funnel-shaped reservior that collects the urine and passes it to the ureter |
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| indentaiton on the medial side of the kidney where the ureter leaces the kidney |
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| two slender tubes, approximately 10 to 13 inches long, that recieve the urine from the kidneys and carry it to the posterior portion of the baldder |
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| muscular, hollow organ that temporarily holds the urine. As it fills, the thick, musculare wall becomes thinner, and the organ increases in size |
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| lowest part of the urinary tract, through which the urine passes from the urinary bladder to the outside of the body. This narrow tube varries in length by sex. It is 1.5 inches in females and 8 in males. Serves as a urogenital pore for males also. |
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| opening through which the urine passes to the outside |
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| loosening, dissolution, separating |
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| drooping, sagging, prolapse |
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| protrusion of the bladder |
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| inflammation of the renal pelvis and the kidney |
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| condition of urine (urea) in the blood |
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| polycystic kidney disease |
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| condition in which the kidney contains many cysts and is enlarged |
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| a condition in which pathogenic microorganisms, usually bacteria, enter the blood stream causing a systemic inflammatory response to the infection AKA- septicema |
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| infection of one or more organs of the urinary tract |
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| incision of the bladder to remove a stone |
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| surgical crushing of a stone |
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| surgical fixation of the kidney |
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| creation of an artificial opening into the kidney |
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| incision of the renal pelvis to remove a stone |
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| creation of an artificial opening into the uterer |
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| extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy |
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| a noninvasive treatment for removal of a kidney or ureteral stone(s). By using ultrasound and fluoroscopic imaging, the stone is positioned at a focal point. |
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x-ray image fo the urinary tract
AKA- pyelogram |
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| x-ray imaging of the kidney |
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| x-ray image fo the urinary tract with a contrast medium instilled through urethral catheters by a cystoscope |
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| voiding cystourethrography |
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| x-ray imaging of the bladder and the urethra |
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| instrument used for visual examination of the urethra |
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| multiple routine tests performed on a urine specimen |
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| absence of urine (failure of the kidneys to produce urine) |
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| condition of urine passing through (increased excretion of urine.) |
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| sugar (glucose) in the urine |
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| flexible, tubelike device, such as a urinary catheter, for withdrawing or instilling fluids |
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| agent that increases the formation and excretion of urine |
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| invlountary urination (bed wetting) |
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| inability to control bladder or bowels |
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