URINALYSIS AND BODY FLUIDS
EXAMPREP VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS COMPLETE LEARNING
PACKAGE
●● Urine specimen of a baby is giving a "mousy" ordor. What is it?
Answer: Phenylpyruvic acid
-Phenylkentonuria is genetic disorder results in a mousy odor.
●● Urine specimen that gives off a "fruity" odor?
Answer: Acetone
●● Urine specimen with an ammonia odor?
Answer: Bacterial infection
**ammonia is byproduct of urea breakdown
●● Urine specimen with no odor, but has a red color?
Answer: Porphyrin
,●● Urine with a black pigment
Answer: Melanin
●● Urine with a amber/brown color
Answer: Bilirubin
●● Urine from a 50-year-old man was noted to turn dark red on
standing. This change is caused by:
Answer: 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
Answer: Many WBCs
-Women's urine will be milky due to UTIs, in which many WBCs are
present
●● Urine that has a green/brown pigment
Answer: Bile
●● Urine that is red or white in color
, Answer: RBCs
●● Red urine may be due to:
Answer: myoglobin
**a protein that carries and stores oxygen in the muscle cells
●● Dark urine while standing may be due to
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: Alkaptonuria
- the uric acid with turn black on standing
EXAMPREP VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS COMPLETE LEARNING
PACKAGE
●● Urine specimen of a baby is giving a "mousy" ordor. What is it?
Answer: Phenylpyruvic acid
-Phenylkentonuria is genetic disorder results in a mousy odor.
●● Urine specimen that gives off a "fruity" odor?
Answer: Acetone
●● Urine specimen with an ammonia odor?
Answer: Bacterial infection
**ammonia is byproduct of urea breakdown
●● Urine specimen with no odor, but has a red color?
Answer: Porphyrin
,●● Urine with a black pigment
Answer: Melanin
●● Urine with a amber/brown color
Answer: Bilirubin
●● Urine from a 50-year-old man was noted to turn dark red on
standing. This change is caused by:
Answer: 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
Answer: Many WBCs
-Women's urine will be milky due to UTIs, in which many WBCs are
present
●● Urine that has a green/brown pigment
Answer: Bile
●● Urine that is red or white in color
, Answer: RBCs
●● Red urine may be due to:
Answer: myoglobin
**a protein that carries and stores oxygen in the muscle cells
●● Dark urine while standing may be due to
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: Alkaptonuria
- the uric acid with turn black on standing
