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A patient with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus will most likely have -:- pale urine with high specific gravity -High specific gravity is due to the glucose in the urine. People w/diabetes have polyuria, so the volume of urine dilutes the urochrome (color), making it pale. Urine specimen of a ...

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Urinalysis and Body Fluids Questions and
Correct Answers | Latest Update
A patient with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus will most likely have

✓ -:- pale urine with high specific gravity


-High specific gravity is due to the glucose in the urine. People w/diabetes have polyuria, so

the volume of urine dilutes the urochrome (color), making it pale.




Urine specimen of a baby is giving a "mousy" ordor. What is it?

✓ -:- Phenylpyruvic acid


-Phenylkentonuria is genetic disorder results in a mousy odor.




Urine specimen that gives off a "fruity" odor?

✓ -:- Acetone


Urine specimen with an ammonia odor?

✓ -:- Bacterial infection


**ammonia is byproduct of urea breakdown




Urine specimen with no odor, but has a red color?



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✓ -:- Porphyrin


Urine with a black pigment

✓ -:- Melanin


Urine with a amber/brown color

✓ -:- Bilirubin


Urine from a 50-year-old man was noted to turn dark red on standing. This change is

caused by:

✓ -:- Porphyrins


-The 2 pigments in urine is porphrin and urochrome. Urochrome is the "urine color" which

is yellow and porphyrin is red




Milky urine from a 24 year old woman would most likely contain

✓ -:- Many WBCs


-Women's urine will be milky due to UTIs, in which many WBCs are present




Urine that has a green/brown pigment

✓ -:- Bile


Urine that is red or white in color



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✓ -:- RBCs


Red urine may be due to:

✓ -:- myoglobin
**a protein that carries and stores oxygen in the muscle cells




Dark urine while standing may be due to

✓ -:- Homogentistic acid


Urine specimen from healthy 25 year old was cloudy after he ate a meal. Everything was

normal on reagent strip analysis. The cause of the cloudy turbidity is due to

✓ -:- Phosphates


-Since he is healthy, the turbidity is nonpathologic. After meals, urine is more alkaline;

referred to alkaline tide. Due to the pH, amorphous phosphate may be found




What metabolic disease will turn the urine dark brown to black upon standing

✓ -:- Alkaptonuria
- the uric acid with turn black on standing




Urine osmalaity is related to

✓ -:- Specific gravity


Urine specific gravity is an index of the ability of the kidney to



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