Consider the following excerpt from a clinician’s notes following completion of a urologic examination. For the bolded terms or word parts, provide the meaning.
Patient is a 60-year-old female experiencing pain in the lumbar region of the back, hematuria, fever, and anorexia. Urinalysis showed proteinuria, and CT scan demonstrated nephromegaly and evidence of polycystic kidney disease
A. hematuria
B. Urinalysis
C. proteinuria
D. nephromegaly
E. polycystic kidney disease
A. Blood in the urine
B. Examination of contents of the urine
C. Protein in the urine
D. Enlargement of the kidney
E. Disease characterized by multiple fluid-filled sacs growing within the kidney
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