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VET 124 FINAL STUDY GUIDE
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Question: What do you expect to see in a dog with
diabetes mellitus who has polydipsia and polyuria in regard to the sp.gr.?
Correct answer: SG is often normal or high
Question: What is the proper way to prepare and examine
a urine sediment?
Correct answer: Sample 5mL - 10mL, centrifuge 5
minutes, pour off the supernatant fluid, thump bottom of tube, put a drop of urine on slide and add cover slip, can also add stain, look over entire slide at 10x, count the casts and crystals found in 10 fields, move to 40x and count the cells found in 10 fields, add up and divide by 10
Question: What effect does allowing urine to set at room
temperature for a period of time have on crystals and casts?
Correct answer: crystals may form, casts may dissolve
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Question: What is excess amount of urea in the blood
known as?
Correct answer: Azotemia
Question: What does a specific gravity of 1.002 indicate?
Correct answer: Diabetes insipidus
Question: What is urine described as in relation to its
synthesis in the kidney?
Correct answer: a physiologic fluid which is actively
synthesized in the kidney from materials derived from the blood
Question: How are specific gravity and water
consumption normally related?
Correct answer: Inversely
Question: What is one of the two hormones involved in
the conservation of water?
Correct answer: aldosterone, ADH
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Question: Does the urine of most domestic animals
contain a high level of sediment?
Correct answer: does not
Question: In the nephron, where does filtration occur?
Correct answer: between the glomerular capillary bed and
Bowman's capsule
Question: What percentage of nephrons in the kidneys
can be damaged or non-functional before symptoms appear in the animal?
Correct answer: 75%
Question: What is the functional unit of the kidney?
Correct answer: nephron
Question: What are the missing terms in the sequence for
tracing a drop of urine: glomerular, [1], proximal
convoluted tubule, [2], distal convoluted tubule,
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collecting tubule, renal pelvis, [3], bladder, [4], Big Oak Tree?
Correct answer: 1- Bowman's capsule, 2- loop of Henle,
3- ureter, 4- urethra
Question: What is Capillaria plica the scientific name for?
Correct answer: bladder worm
Question: What are the largest cells found in the urine?
Correct answer: squamous epithelial cells
Question: What type of epithelial cell is found in the
bladder?