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| passing urine from the bladder through urethra to the outside of the body |
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| bedpan that is flatter than a regular bedpan |
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| a chair with a toilet seat and a removable container underneath |
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| inability to control bladder, leading to involuntary loss of urine |
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| the body's drainage system for removing urine, two kidneys, two ureters, a bladder, and a urethra |
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| urinary tract infection UTI |
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| bacterial infection of the urethra, bladder, ureter, kidney that results in painful burning urination and frequent feeling of needing to urinate |
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| stones that form when urine crystallizes in the kidneys, which can block the kidneys and ureters, causing severe pain |
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| renovascular hypertension |
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| condition in which a blockage of arteries in the kidneys causes high bp |
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| condition that occurs when the kidneys cannot eliminate certain waste products from the body, aka chronic kidney failure |
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| artificial means of removing the body's waste products when the kidneys are no longer able to fxn properly |
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| thin tube inserted into the body to drain fluids or inject fluids |
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| type of catheter that is used to drain urine from bladder |
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| type of urinary catheter that is removed immediately after urine is drained |
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| type of urinary catheter that remains inside the bladder for a period of time, foley catheter |
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| type of urinary catheter that has an attachment on the end that fits onto the penis, aka texas catheter |
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| sample used for analysis in order to try to make a diagnosis |
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| urine specimen that can be collected any time a person voids |
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| plastic collection container that can be inserted into a toilet bowl to collect and measure urine or stool |
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| urine specimen that does not include the first and last urine voided aka mid-stream specimen |
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| all urine voided in 24 hour period |
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| the act of passing feces from the lg intestine out of the body through the anus |
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| involuntary contractions that move food through the gastrointestinal system |
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| inability to eliminate stool or infrequent, difficult, and often painful elimination or a hard dry stool |
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| specific amount of water, with or without an additive, introduced into the colon to stimulate the elimination of stool |
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| hard stool stuck in rectum that cannot be expelled |
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| enlarged veins in rectum or outside anus that can cause rectal itching, burning, pain and bleeding |
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| frequent elimination of liquid or semi-liquid feces |
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| inability to control bowels, leading to involuntary passage of stool |
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| air in the intestine that is passed through the rectum, which can result in cramping or abdominal pain |
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| inability to digest lactose, a type of sugar found in milk and other dairy products |
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| inability to absorb or digest a particular nutrient properly |
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| gastroesophageal reflux disease |
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| GERD-chronic condition in which the liquid contents of the stomach back up into the esophagus |
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| gastroesophageal reflux disease-chronic condition in which the liquid contents of the stomach back up into the esophagus |
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| condition that results from weakening of sphincter muscle that joins the esophagus and the stomach and causes a burning sensation in the esophagus |
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| raw sores in the stomach that cause pain, belching and vomiting |
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| chronic inflammatory disease of the lg intestine, that causes cramping, diarrhea, pain, rectal bleeding, loss of appetite, and weight loss |
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| artificial opening of the body |
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| cancer of the gastrointestinal tract aka colon cancer |
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| hidden, difficult to see or observe |
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| surgically created opening from an area inside the body to the outside |
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| surgically created opening from a ureter to the abdomen for urine to be eliminated |
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| opening through abdomen into large intestine to allow stool to be expelled |
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| opening into the end of the small intestine to allow stool to be expelled |
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