Kidney and Urinary System Terms

A tube that carries bile from the gall bladder.

Removing the bladder means inventing a replacement for it, and that reconstruction shapes recovery more than the removal does.

Rigid or flexible: the choice of instrument decides whether the look inside happens in a clinic room or an operating room.

Ultrasound and CT show the bladder wall from outside; only a look inside reveals flat patches of abnormal lining.

Surgery to remove the bladder (the organ that holds urine) and urethra (the tube through which urine leaves the body).

A type of poisonous mushroom that has harmful effects on the kidneys and liver.

Denys-Drash syndrome is a rare genetic disorder combining early kidney failure, abnormal sexual development, and a high risk of Wilms tumor.

A childhood condition in which abnormal tissue grows on the outer part of one or both kidneys.

One word covering two unrelated illnesses, though on its own it is almost always taken to mean the sugar one.

Sugar left circulating rather than delivered into cells, a shortfall that quietly damages small and large blood vessels over years.

The process of filtering the blood when the kidneys are not able to cleanse it.

A childhood condition in which abnormal tissue grows on the outer part of one or both kidneys.

Diuretics increase urine output by altering how the kidneys handle salt and water, commonly used for high blood pressure and fluid retention.

One receptor sits in two very different places, which is how a single tablet ended up treating both blood pressure and prostate symptoms.

A drug used to treat high blood pressure and urinary problems caused by an enlarged prostate.

The kidney doubles as an oxygen meter, releasing this hormone whenever the blood passing through it carries less oxygen than it should.

To get rid of waste material from the blood, tissues, or organs by a normal discharge (such as sweat, urine, or stool).

A chemotherapy combination used to treat malignant mesothelioma, advanced non-small cell lung cancer, advanced bladder cancer, advanced cervical cancer, pancreatic cancer, and epithelial ovarian…

A chemotherapy combination used to treat malignant mesothelioma, advanced non-small cell lung cancer, advanced bladder cancer, advanced cervical cancer, pancreatic cancer, and epithelial ovarian…

Two jobs that have little in common are grouped as one system because the organs doing them grow from the same embryonic tissue.