Information about the Urinary System
| Name | Alt. Name |
| 24-hour urine test | |
| abdominal distress | abdominal discomfort, abdominal pain |
| acute interstitial nephritis | AIN |
| acute prostatitis | acute bacterial prostatitis, infection of the prostate gland, prostate gland infection |
| aging changes in the urinary system | |
| analgesic nephropathy | analgesic-induced nephropathy |
| asymptomatic bacteriuria | |
| atheroembolic renal disease | atherosclerotic renal vascular disease, cholesterol embolism, renal artery aneurysm, renal artery embolism |
| benign prostatic hyperplasia | benign prostatic hypertrophy, BPH, enlarged prostate, prostatism |
| bladder cancer | cancer of the bladder |
| bladder outlet obstruction | |
| bladder stones | bladder calculi |
| blood in the semen | |
| blood in the urine | hematuria |
| catheter associated UTI | |
| chlamydia infection in females | |
| chlamydia infection in males | |
| chronic prostatitis | chronic bacterial prostatitis |
| chronic renal failure | chronic kidney failure, CRF |
| cystocele | dropped bladder, fallen bladder |
| decreased urination | decreased urine production, oliguria |
| diabetic nephropathy | diabetic glomerulosclerosis, diabetic kidney disease, diabetic sclerosis |
| dialysis | |
| diet for kidney disease | renal diet |
| end-stage renal disease | end-stage kidney disease, end-stage renal failure, ESRD |
| enuresis | bedwetting, bladder incontinence, loss of bladder control, uncontrollable urination |
| flank pain | flank discomfort |
| genital injury in males | injury to the genitals, injury to the testicles, penile injury, straddle injury |
| Goodpasture syndrome | anti-GBM antibody disease |
| group A streptococcal infections | GAS infection |
| hemolytic uremic syndrome | HUS |
| interstitial cystitis | painful bladder syndrome |
| intravenous pyelogram | excretory urogram, intravenous pyelography, IVP |
| Kegel exercises for women | incontinence exercises, pelvic floor muscle exercises, pelvic muscle strengthening exercises |
| kidney function tests | BUN, creatinine, creatinine clearance, creatinine-urine |
| kidney stones | nephrolithiasis, urinary calculi, urolithiasis |
| kidney transplant | renal transplant, transplantation of the kidney |
| lithotripsy | |
| malignant hypertension | malignant hypertensive arteriolar nephrosclerosis |
| meatal stenosis | urethral meatal stenosis |
| medullary cystic disease | medullary cystic renal disease, nephronophthisis complex |
| neurogenic bladder | neurogenic incontinence, neurologic bladder dysfunction, neuromuscular dysfunction of the lower urinary tract, neuropathic bladder |
| non-bacterial prostatitis | prostatitis, non-bacterial, prostatodynia |
| obstructive uropathy | post-renal nephropathy |
| painful urination | dysuria |
| paraphimosis | |
| polycystic kidney disease | polycystic disease of the kidneys |
| poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis | PSGN |
| primary glomerulonephritis | GN |
| pyelonephritis | kidney infection |
| rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis | crescentic glomerulonephritis, RPGN |
| recurring urinary tract infection | chronic cystitis, chronic urinary tract infection, chronic UTI, recurrent UTI, relapsing urinary tract infection, relapsing UTI |
| Reiter's syndrome | reactive arthritis |
| renal failure | acute renal insufficiency |
| renovascular hypertension | |
| toilet training | potty training |
| UPJ Obstruction | pelvo-uretero junction obstruction, PUJ Obstruction, ureteropelvic junction obstruction |
| urethral stricture | |
| urge incontinence | |
| urinalysis | routine urine test, urine appearance and color |
| urinary catheters | bladder catheterization |
| urinary incontinence | |
| urinary tract infections in children | bladder infection, cystitis, pyelonephritis, urethritis |
| urinary tract infection | bladder infection, cystitis, UTI |
| urine culture |