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Urgent
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Urgent Anything non-life threatening.
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Urge incontinence
The inability to hold urine long enough to reach a restroom.
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Upper GI series
X-rays of the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum. The patient swallows barium first. Barium makes the organs show up on x-rays. Also called barium meal.
Urea breath test
A test used to detect Helicobacter pylori infection. The test measures breath samples for urease, an enzyme H. pylori makes.
Ureters
Two tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
Urethritis
Infection limited to the urethra.
Urge incontinence
The inability to hold urine long enough to reach a restroom.
Urgent
Urinary incontinence
Loss of bladder control.
Urticaria
A skin condition, commonly known as hives, an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs.
Undifferentiated
Not having developed into a specialized cell or tissue type.
Unipotent stem cell
A stem cell that both divides and gives rise to a single mature cell type, such as a spermatogenic stem cell, which only gives rise to sperm.
Umbilical cord
A cord of tissue connecting the fetus to the placenta that carries oxygen and nutrients to the fetus and transports waste products away. At birth, an umbilical cord, which contains two arteries and one large vein, can be as long as 4 feet.
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Urge incontinence
The inability to hold urine long enough to reach a restroom.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Upper GI series
X-rays of the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum. The patient swallows barium first. Barium makes the organs show up on x-rays. Also called barium meal.
Urea breath test
A test used to detect Helicobacter pylori infection. The test measures breath samples for urease, an enzyme H. pylori makes.
Ureters
Two tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
Urethritis
Infection limited to the urethra.
Urge incontinence
The inability to hold urine long enough to reach a restroom.
Urgent
Urinary incontinence
Loss of bladder control.
Urticaria
A skin condition, commonly known as hives, an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs.
Undifferentiated
Not having developed into a specialized cell or tissue type.
Unipotent stem cell
A stem cell that both divides and gives rise to a single mature cell type, such as a spermatogenic stem cell, which only gives rise to sperm.
Umbilical cord
A cord of tissue connecting the fetus to the placenta that carries oxygen and nutrients to the fetus and transports waste products away. At birth, an umbilical cord, which contains two arteries and one large vein, can be as long as 4 feet.
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