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UTICHAP 12 D AND DO
DISEASE AND DISORDER OF MALE REPROD
Question | Answer |
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ANDROPATHY | TERM FOR A DISEASE THAT ONLY AFFLICTS MALES |
ANORCHISM | CONDITION OF WITHOUT TESTIS - ONE OR BOTH |
BALAITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE GLANS PENIS |
BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA (BPH) | PROSTATE GLAND ENLARGES TO CONSTICT THE URETHRA PASSING THROUGH= S/S = NOCTURIA AND A FREQUENT NEED TO VOID. IT IS NOT CANCER AND DOES NOT SPREAD |
CRYPTORCHIDISM | AN UNDESCEDED TESTIS - ONE TESTICLE IS HIDDEN |
EPIDIDYMITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE EPIDIDYMIS = |
ERECTILE DYSFUNTION | INABILITY TO ACHIEVE AN ERECTION |
HYDROCELE | SWELLING OF THE SCROTUM CAUSED BY FLUID ACCUMULATION; INJURY IS THE MOST CAUSE |
PEYRONIE'S DISEASE | HARDNESS OR INDURATION OF THE ERCTILE TISSUE WITHIN THE PENIS; CAN CAUSE ERECTILE DYSFUNTION |
PHIMOSIS | CONGENITAL NARROWING OF THE PREPUCE OPENING |
PRIAPISM | ABNORMALLY PERSISTENT ERECTION OF THE PENIS; ACCOMPAINED BY PAIN AND TENDERNESS; COMMON CAUSE IS DRUG OVER DOSE |
PROSTATE CANCER | AND AGRESSIVE FORM OF CANCER IN THE PROSTATE GLAND; it increase the size of the prostate before it spreads into the pelvic region and beyound |
TESTICULAR CARCINOMA | CANCER ORIGINATING FROM THE TESTIS; Occurs and mortality is highest amoung the 20-29 y/o age group |
SEMINOMA | MOST COMMON FORM OF TESTICULAR CANCER; Arises from sperm forming cells and metastasizes to nearby lymph nodes |
TESTICULAR TORSION | OCCURS WHEN THE SPERMATIC CORD BECOMES TWISTED; causing a reduced blood flow to the testis, if it is not corrected within a few hours by surgery, the affected testicular tissue can die |
VARICOCELE | HERNIATION OF THE VEINS WITHIN THE SPERMATIC CORD; CAUSED BY failure of the valves within the veins allowing blood to pool and dilate the veins |