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Terminology
The following are medical terminology (combining forms, root words, prefixes, and suffixes) pertaining to the urinary system.
Structures
- cali/o (calic/o) - calyx
- cyst/o - urinary bladder
- glumerul/o - glomerulus
- meat/o - meatus
- nehr/o (ren/o) - kidney
- pyel/o - renal pelvis
- ren/o - kidney
- trigon/o - trigone
- ureter/o - ureter
- urethr/o - urethra
Substances and Symptoms
- albumin/o - albumin
- bacteri/o - bacteria
- dips/o - thirst
- ket/o (keton/o) - ketone bodies
- lith/o - stone
- py/o - pus
- -tripsy - to crush
- ur/o - urine (urea)
- urin/o - urine
- -uria - urination, urine condition
The textbook from which I obtained this information is Davi-Ellen Chabner, The Language of Medicine, 7th Edition, Philadelphia: Saunders, 2004.
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