(n.) A morbid condition in which pus is discharged in the urine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite persistent pyuria, no bacteria were found during routine microscopic examinations or bacteriologic culturing of urine.
(2) Ninety-seven asymptomatic 16-21-year-old sexually active adolescent males were evaluated for gonorrhea and chlamydia by culture, chlamydia enzyme immunoassay, and an analysis of a random urine sample for pyuria using centrifuged urine and urine cytometer.
(3) The common clinical findings were hypertension (73.9%), abdominal mass, proteinuria, anemia, azotemia, abdominal or back pain and pyuria in orders.
(4) Common symptoms of inflammation of the lower urinary tract, haematuria and pyuria were seen more often among patients with S. saprophyticus infections.
(5) pyuria, scarring, stone-formation) can be ensured mainly by the use of synthetic suture materials.
(6) A positive urine culture was predicted by pyuria, bacteriuria and a positive nitrite test; the predictive values were 23%, 21% and 87%, respectively.
(7) We investigated the significance of pyuria in relation to the method of specimen acquistion, number of white blood cells and isolation of pathogens on culture.
(8) Women who presented to the student health service with symptoms suggestive of urinary tract infection and found to have pyuria on urinalysis were offered the opportunity to participate in a clinical trial comparing antibiotic regimens in the treatment of their urinary infection.
(9) Borate also preserves white blood cells in urine and thereby marginally improved the diagnosis of pyuria.
(10) Urinary sediments with significant pyuria were supravitally stained to assess the inflammatory state.
(11) Chlamydiae were recovered from 31% of the 67 men with nongonococcal urethritis compared to only 4% of 86 asymptomatic men without pyuria.
(12) As a result, pyuria in infants must be explained urologically, particularly when it occurs in males.
(13) In the 200 mg doxycycline group (n = 45) pyuria was absent in 18 patients (40%) and Ureaplasma urealyticum was isolated from two patients on day 21.
(14) There was a similar improvement in pyuria, and therapeutic response was equal in diabetic patients as in non-diabetic patients.
(15) These findings suggest that in the interest of cost effectiveness, the urine can be cultured only when the screening urinalysis shows pyuria, bacteriuria or a positive nitrite test.
(16) After treatment pyuria was cleared in 9 cases and decreased or unchanged in 6 cases in the ofloxacin group.
(17) Among asymptomatic men with positive cultures, pyuria was present in urine specimens obtained at 17 of 18 visits, while the leukocyte count on the urethral gram stain was above normal at ten of 29 visits (P less than .01).
(18) Patients with crescents on their initial renal biopsy or with large numbers of polymorphs in glomerular capillaries corresponding with sterile pyuria were more likely to have deterioration of renal function.
(19) A case of complete urethral duplication is reported in a 2.5 year old girl seen for pyuria.
(20) The circumstances of discovery are related to the urological symptoms: pain, hematuria, pyuria.
Urine
Definition:
(n.) In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion.
(v. i.) To urinate.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
(2) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
(3) One thing seems to be noteworthy in their opinion: the bacterial resistance of the germs isolated from the urine is bigger than the one of the germs isolated from the respiratory apparatus.
(4) This difference is probably secondary to the different rates of delivery of furosemide into urine.
(5) No associations were found between sex, body-weight, smoking habits, age, urine volume or urine pH and the O-demethylation of codeine.
(6) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
(7) Zinc in plasma and urine and serum albumin and alpha 2-macroglobulin were measured in 48 patients with burns.
(8) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(9) A sensitive, selective and easy to use high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of cicletanide, a new diuretic, in plasma, red blood cells, urine and saliva is described.
(10) Investigations on the influence of the diuresis effect on the results of quantitative estrogen and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) determination revealed that the estrogen values increase with the 24-hour amount of urine.
(11) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
(12) We recommend analysing the urine for porphyrins in HIV-positive patients who have chronic photosensitivity of the skin.
(13) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(14) Urine tests in six patients with other kidney diseases and with uraemia and in seven healthy persons did not show this substance.
(15) The antigenic composition of an extract of rat dust, as a source of aeroallergens for rat-sensitive individuals, has been investigated and compared to the antigenic composition of rat saliva and urine.
(16) There is a considerably larger variability of the mercury levels in urine than in blood.
(17) Metabolites of nafiverine in blood, bile, and urine were determined quantitatively.
(18) Cost-effective immunoassays for the detection of amphetamines, benzodiazepines, and methadone in urine have been developed using Syva EMIT reagents and a Cobas Bio centrifugal analyser.
(19) Sulphuric acid fluorescence is used for quantitation and specificity is achieved by the addition of tritiated oestrone to the urine hydrolysate.
(20) Their levels in urine are a useful indicator of the integrity of membrane barriers of the kidney glomerular capillary wall.