A urine test strip or dipstick is a basic diagnostic tool used to determine pathological changes in a patient's urine in standard urinalysis. A standard...
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A urine test is any medical test performed on a urine specimen. The analysis of urine is a valuable diagnostic tool because its composition reflects the...
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Urinalysis (redirect from Urine microscopy)
strips, and microscopic examination. Macroscopic examination targets parameters such as color, clarity, odor, and specific gravity; urine test strips...
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Food testing strips Glucose meter test strip Lipolysis test strip Urine test strip Universal indicator pH test strips It may also refer to: Teststrip,...
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supported by a urine test strip which is positive for "blood" but the urine contains no red blood cells when examined with a microscope. Blood tests show a creatine...
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chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)) in blood or urine using a pregnancy test kit, and scanning with ultrasonography. Testing blood for hCG results in the earliest...
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dinitrophenylhydrazine (DNPH) test, and molecular testing. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, urine test strips, and the DNPH test can detect urinary organic...
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Leukocyte esterase (category Urine tests)
combination of the LE test with the urinary nitrite test provides an excellent screen for establishing the presence of a UTI. Urine test strips (dipsticks) can...
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Ketosis (section Urine testing)
based on color change of the strip. Although beta-hydroxybutyrate is the predominant circulating ketone, urine test strips only measure acetoacetate. Urinary...
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Choluria (redirect from Dark urine)
Choluria (or bilirubinuria) is a symptom defining an abnormal darkness of the urine, mainly due to a high level of conjugated bilirubin. Choluria is a common...
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negative test result if testing older urine. The urine testing strip bottle has instructions and color charts to illustrate how the color on the strip will...
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Dipstick (redirect from Dipstick test)
runways and super highways to rough unpaved roads. Dripstick Litmus Urine test strip Look up dipstick in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Paek, S.H.; Lee...
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A drug test (also often toxicology screen or tox screen) is a technical analysis of a biological specimen, for example urine, hair, blood, breath, sweat...
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Recumbent and upright urine protein to creatinine ratio is often used as a screening test. 24-hour split urine testing is often tested. Additional causes...
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Analysis of the urine may show signs of urinary tract infection. Specifically, the presence of nitrite and white blood cells on a urine test strip in patients...
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developed not only to make a test possible at all but then also to mask its complexity. For example, various kinds of urine test strips have been available for...
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will show up in the test line region of the specific drug strip.[citation needed] Cannabis use is included in the "10-panel urine screen", as well as...
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A nitrite test is a standard component of a urinary test strip. A positive test for nitrites in the urine is called nitrituria. This test is commonly...
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measured with enzyme-amperometric biosensors, as well as with urine test strips. Many of these tests are performed in combination to rule out lab mistakes and...
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Bilirubin (category Liver function tests)
in the urine, indicating a pathological process. Unconjugated bilirubin is not water-soluble and so is not excreted in the urine. Testing urine for both...
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methods are also used. In some cases, urine samples or positive blood culture samples are applied directly to the test medium, bypassing the preliminary step...
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Proteinuria (redirect from Protein in urine)
occur if the protein in the urine is composed mainly of globulins or Bence Jones proteins because the reagent on the test strips, bromophenol blue, is highly...
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there are also quick test strips available, allowing after wetting a special diagnostic bar, the detection of granulocytes in the urine, as evidenced by the...
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2009 Pink, et al., reported that saliva testing had become so widespread that it had begun to replace urine testing as the standard for detecting illicit...
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Diagnosis of HIV/AIDS (redirect from AIDS test)
HIV tests are used to detect the presence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes HIV/AIDS, in serum, saliva, or urine. Such...
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Glucose meter (category Medical testing equipment)
reaction that is still used nowadays in glucose test strips for urine. Besides glucose oxidase, the test kit contains a benzidine derivative, which is oxidized...
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Ketonuria (category Abnormal clinical and laboratory findings for urine)
the urine should not contain a noticeable concentration of ketones to give a positive reading. As with tests for glucose, acetoacetate can be tested by...
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assay is commonly used for home pregnancy tests which detect human chorionic gonadotropin, hCG, in the urine of pregnant women. Competitive assays are...
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WHO model list of essential in vitro diagnostics (redirect from WHO list of essential diagnostic tests)
diagnostic tests (EDL) is a World Health Organization (WHO) priority list of medical tests that provides guidance for individual countries on which tests to use...
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Whizzinator (category Drug testing)
alternative to using real urine for sexual fetish activity — but most consumers purchase the device to fraudulently defeat drug tests. The Whizzinator comes...
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