Diagnostic, Symptomatic, and Therapeutic Terms – Urinary

• Anuria - absence of urine production
• azotemia, uremia - metabolic wastes (urea, creatine and uric acid) in the blood
• chronic renal failure - renal failure that occurs over a period of years, whereby the kidneys lose their ability to maintain volume and composition of the body fluids with normal dietary intake; condition is due to deficiency in the total number of functioning nephrons in the kidneys.
• dysuria - painful or difficult urination, symptomatic of numerous condition
• enuresis, incontinence - involuntary discharge of urine during the night (nocturnal enuresis); during the day (diurnal enuresis).
• fistula - abnormal passage from the hollow organ to the surface, or from one organ to another.
• frequency - voiding at frequent intervals
• hesitancy - involuntary delay in initiating urination
• nephrotic syndrome - loss of large amounts of plasma protein by way of urine, which results in systemic edema.
• nocturia, nycturia - excessive urination during the night
• oliguria - scanty urine production
• Urolithiasis - presence of stones in any urinary structure; frequently treated by pulverizing the stones with the ultrasonic lithotriptor.
• MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

  Anorchism -congenital absence of one or both testes
• MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

  aspermia - lack of or failure to ejaculate semen
• MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

  balanitis glans - inflammation of the skin covering the penis.
• MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

  epispadias - malformation in which the urethra opens on the dorsum of the penis.
• MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

  hydrocele - accumulation of serous fluid in a sac-like cavity, especially the testes and associated structures.
• hypospadias - developmental anomaly in males in which the urethra opens on the underside of the penis or, in extreme cases, on the perineum
• impotence - condition characterized by inability or achieve an erection
• phimosis - stenosis or narrowing of preputial orifice so that the foreskin cannot be pushed back over the glans penis
• Sterility - inability to fertilize the ovum; inability of reproducing an offspring
• varicocele - swelling and distension of veins of the spermatic cord