DNA: deoxyribonucleic acid located in the chromosomes of cell nuclei.

Aminoglycoside: an antibiotic active on certain germs. Use with caution.

Amiodarone: A drug used to treat certain heart rhythm disturbances.

Analgesics: a class of drugs used to fight against pain.

Anemia: Reduced red blood cell count and hemoglobin in the blood circulating.
Aneurysm: blood bag developed over the course of an artery whose walls are dilated.
Angina pain behind the sternum, giving a sensation of tightness, accompanied by anxiety and disseminating the left arm in connection with an inadequate supply of blood to the heart, the result of atherosclerosis of coronary arteries.
Angio MRI scanning techniques magnetic resonance vessels of the human body with reconstruction and visualization in three dimensions. Consideration expensive to book targeted to patients.

Angioplasty: surgical technique and radiological who can expand a narrowed artery.
Angiotensin 2: hormone produced by the action of renin and angiotensin converting enzyme, has a powerful effect of vascular contraction and elevated blood pressure.
Antagonist that opposes.

Analgesic: A drug used in the fight against pain.

Antibiotic: A drug used to treat bacterial infections.

Antidepressants: a class of drugs used to treat depression involving a mood disorder in a slowdown of intellectual activity.

Antihypertensive drug: A drug used to lower blood pressure.
Anti-inflammatory drug designed to fight against inflammation.
Aorta artery, arising from the left ventricle, the origin of the main arteries of the body.

Arteritis: obstruction more or less complete of an artery by atheroma.
Atheroma: deposition of fat and calcium in the vessels.
Auditory: respect to hearing.
Destruction: destruction of oneself (the pancreas in diabetes destroys its own cells).

Autosome: chromosome that does not transmit sexual nature.

Bartter syndrome : congenital and hereditary speaking by chronic lower potassium in the blood, with increased secretion of renin and aldosterone.

Berger (disease): glomerular nephropathy resulting in the presence of immunoglobulin A deposits in the glomeruli and expressed by the presence of blood in the urine often connected with upper respiratory tract infections and may progress to chronic renal failure.

Bicarbonates: salt to control the acidity of the body.

Biguanide: Drugs used in diabetes type 2 (non-blind lino-dependent) to reduce blood sugar in the blood.

Calcitriol: a drug to compensate for the lack of vitamin D normally produced by the kidney.

Calcium mineral element of the body that contributes to the growth and bone mineralization. Present in dairy products.

Calories: food is energy produced by the protein, carbohydrate and fat metabolized completely, which is necessary for the body to function.

Catheter: hose, plastic, to introduce and collect body fluids (blood, urine …).
Cell: the smallest structure of the body contains a nucleus surrounded by a membrane and participates actively in trade with organic media body. Depending on the age of the cells tend to do more or less reproduce.

Cephalosporin: antibiotic active but at risk in patients with impaired renal function.

Chromosome: the characteristic element of the cell nucleus that contains genes that carry heredity.

Clearance: measure for assessing the power of removal by the kidneys of a substance.

Renal colic pain very violent, hence the loins, usually unilateral, radiating to the lower abdomen, accompanied by restlessness, vomiting, arrest passenger in the digestive transit. It is due to distention of the pelvis on an obstacle, calculus (stones) the most.

Cytological urine: urine analysis to detect the presence of abnormally high blood, pus and germs.

Diabetes (diabetes mellitus) disease due to lack more or less insulin responsible for a rise in blood sugar and various complications (heart, kidney, eye, vessels, etc..).

Dialysate: aqueous solution, prepared and distributed by the generator of dialysis, whose composition is close to that of plasma from healthy subjects

Dialysis: Passage of solutes in a fluid environment to another, through a semipermeable membrane. This principle helps to rid the blood of accumulated waste in the body due to loss of kidney function.