URINARY SEDIMENTS 



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URINARY SEDIMENTS 



J. Canal, a primitive urinary passage. U. Cast, 

 tube-cast. U. Organs, the organs concerned in 

 : secretion and excretion of the urine. They include 

 kidneys, bladder, ureters, and urethra. U. 



Sediment, the deposit of sabulous and other material 

 left after urine has been allowed to stand for some 

 hours in a vessel. A table of the principal materials 

 that may be found in urinary sediment is appended : — 



TABLE OF URINARY SEDIMENTS. 



■Gross Appear- 

 ances and 

 Characters. 



Microscopic 

 Features. 



Illustrations. 

 Tests. Significance. {After Tyson, Casse/man, Landois, 



BeaU, ami von Ja&sch.) 



A flocculent, 

 red deposit. 



Blood-corpuscles. 



Calcium carbo- Whitish sedi- 

 ment (rare) ; 

 urine alka- 

 line. 



Amorphous gran- 

 ules; sm all 

 spheric or dumb- 

 bell crystals. 



Equal parts of Disease of kidney, 

 tincture gua- bladder, or ure- 



iac and ma- 

 ture oil tur-! 

 p e n t i n e or i 

 ozonic ether 

 cause green ! 

 line at junc- j 

 tion with 

 urine. 



thra. 



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*>?m 



Soluble in 

 acids, with ef- 

 fervescence. 



Xo special signifi- 

 cance. 



im oxa- Cloudy, whit- Transparent, re- Soluble in min- 

 ish, often fracting octa- eral acids, 

 highly re- hedra. Some-'; not in acetic, 

 fracting sedi- times " dumb- 



ment. 



bell " shaped. 



Vegetable diet, 

 especially rhu- 

 barb ; oxaluria ; 

 often with uric 

 acid in lithemia. 



! Calcium 

 phate. 



L 



Calcium 

 phate. 



phos- Whitish or Amorphous gran- 



y e 1 1 o w i sh 

 s e d i m e nt ; 

 urine feebly 

 acid or alka- 

 line. 



ules, or wedge- 

 shaped crystals, 

 separate or in ro- 

 set-like clusters. 



Insoluble by ■ Phosphaturia; 

 heat; solu- dyspepsia; alka- 

 ble in acetic line fermentation, 

 or mineral 

 acids. 



sul- Not distinct- 

 ive; rare ; 

 urine acid. 



Elongated, trans- Insoluble i n 

 parent needles or ammonia or 

 tablets. t acids. 



Not distinct- Large, transparent The micro- 

 i v e ; v e r y I plates, often su- s c o p i c ap- 

 rare : urine j perimposed ; one pearances, 

 alkaline. corner frequent- 



ly defective. 



