Glossary

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  • Human uromedulin

    The most abundant protein of renal origin in normal urine. This glycoprotein is the same protein termed Tamm-Horsfall mucoprotein.  

  • Urolagnia

    Sexual excitation associated with urine or urination (e.g., watching another person urinate or having another person urinate on one’s own body). Arousal induced by observing someone urinate.  

  • Urokinetic

    Resulting reflexly from stimulation of the urinary organs.  

  • Urohematonephrosis

    A pathological condition of the kidney in which the pelvis is distended with blood and urine. Expansion of the kidney due to a combination of blood and urine.  

  • Descending urography

    Urography in which an injected contrast agent is excreted by the kidney and studied by x-ray examination during excretion.  

  • Ascending urography

    Urography in which the radiopaque contrast agent is injected into the bladder during cystoscopy.  

  • Urofuscin

    A red-brown pigment sometimes found in samples of urine, especially in cases of porphyrinuria.  

  • Uroflowmeter

    A device for recording urine flow; used to quantitate obstruction to urine flowing from the bladder.  

  • Uroflow

    The volume of urine voided in a specified period. Low flow rates associated with high bladder pressures occur in bladder outlet obstruction.  

  • Uroflavin

    A fluorescent compound present in the urine of persons taking riboflavin.