Which of the following terms means surgical repair of the bladder?  

Which of the following terms means condition of blood in the urine?  

The combining form that means liver is ________.

The following are accessory organs of the digestive system: Choose all that apply.  

The combining form that means male is ________.

Medical term for inflammation of the ureter and kidney which is also a type of urinary tract infection and kidney infection.

A suffix that means “blood condition” is ________.

Case Study 1:  This 68-year-old North Carolina man was admitted to the hospital for evaluation of a persistent right lower lobe infiltrate.  The patient works in a cotton mill in the so-called “opening room”, where he opens bundles of cotton received from the southwestern United States. Three weeks prior to admission, he presented to his primary care physician for evaluation of fever, chills, weight loss, and anorexia.  He was treated with oral amoxicillin, but his condition worsened.  His PPD test was negative and three sputum specimens were negative for acid-fast bacilli on smear.  Fungal cultures of sputum and blood grew a mold which on microscopic examination had numerous rectangular alternating light and dark barrel-like structures. Case Study 1.2:  How could this man’s illness have been prevented?

 Which of the following still causes a relatively common viral infection in children?

Mad Cow Disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) is caused by an agent very similar in classification to the one causing: