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- Benign prostatic hyperplasia [r]: A non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate, which can press on the urethra making urination difficult. [e]
- Cefadroxil [r]: Antibiotic for treating urinary tract infections, skin infections, pharyngitis, and tonsillitis. [e]
- Cefalotin [r]: Cephalosporin antibiotic compound similar to cefaclor, cefadroxil and cefazolin. [e]
- Cefazolin [r]: Semisynthetic cephalosporin [[antibiotic] primarily used to treat bacterial skin infections. [e]
- Cinoxacin [r]: An antibiotic used to treat urinary tract infections caused by many aerobic, Gram-negative bacteria. [e]
- Contraception (medical methods) [r]: Medications and medical devices used to prevent pregnancy in sexually active couples. [e]
- Cystitis [r]: Inflammation of the urinary bladder, often resulting from a bacterial infection. [e]
- Dysuria [r]: Painful urination, often associated with infections of the lower urinary tract, urethritis and vaginitis. [e]
- Food and Drug Administration [r]: The agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services responsible for regulating food, dietary supplements, drugs, biological medical products, blood products, medical devices, radiation-emitting devices, veterinary products, and cosmetics. [e]
- Fosfomycin [r]: Broad-spectrum antibiotic and enolpyruvate transferase inhibitor produced by Streptomyces fradiae. [e]
- Geriatrics [r]: "the branch of medicine concerned with the physiological and pathological aspects of the aged, including the clinical problems of senescence and senility."(National Library of Medicine) [e]
- Gram-negative bacteria [r]: Bacteria that do not retain crystal-violet dye (Gram stain) after staining and decolourizing with alcohol. [e]
- Klebsiella pneumoniae [r]: Gram-negative, non-motile, encapsulated, lactose fermenting, facultative anaerobic, rod shaped bacterium that causes severe pneumonitis in humans. [e]
- Multiple sclerosis [r]: A chronic, inflammatory, demyelinating disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). [e]
- Nitrofurantoin [r]: An antibiotic that is a "urinary anti-infective agent effective against most gram-positive and gram-negative organisms."(National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Phytotherapy [r]: The therapeutic use of plants or plant extracts to prevent or treat disease; it is most commonly a form of complementary and alternative medicine, following long culturally-specific traditions such as herbalism. Chemically extracted and concentration-controlled plant-derived substances are used in conventional medicine, but are usually not considered phytotherapy. [e]
- Protein [r]: A polymer of amino acids; basic building block of living systems. [e]
- Proteus mirabilis [r]: A gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria belonging to the enterobacteriaceae family [e]
- Proteus vulgaris [r]: Rod-shaped, Gram negative bacterium that inhabits the intestinal tracts of humans and animals, and known to cause urinary tract infections and wound infections. [e]
- Pyelonephritis [r]: An inflammation of the kidney and upper urinary tract that usually results from noncontagious bacterial infection of the bladder (cystitis). [e]
- Symptom [r]: A subjective description of an abnormal state, recounted by a patient, which is informative, but different from the objective result of a sign. [e]
- Urethritis [r]: inflammation of the urethra, with vague discomfort to painful urination (dysuria), urethral discharge, or both. [e]
- Urinary catheterization [r]: Insertion of a urinary catheter into a patient's bladder via their urethra. [e]
