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• Benign prostatic hyperplasia [r]: A non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate, which can press on the urethra making urination difficult. ^[e]
• Cefadroxil [r]: Antibiotic for treating urinary tract infections, skin infections, pharyngitis, and tonsillitis. ^[e]
• Cefalotin [r]: Cephalosporin antibiotic compound similar to cefaclor, cefadroxil and cefazolin. ^[e]
• Cefazolin [r]: Semisynthetic cephalosporin [[antibiotic] primarily used to treat bacterial skin infections. ^[e]
• Cinoxacin [r]: An antibiotic used to treat urinary tract infections caused by many aerobic, Gram-negative bacteria. ^[e]
• Contraception (medical methods) [r]: forms of pregnancy prevention that include barrier contraceptives (condoms, cervical caps, etc.), birth control pills or patches (i.e, hormonal contraceptives), and IUD's (intrauterine devices) ^[e]
• Cystitis [r]: Inflammation of the urinary bladder, often resulting from a bacterial infection. ^[e]
• Dysuria [r]: Painful urination, often associated with infections of the lower urinary tract, urethritis and vaginitis. ^[e]
• Food and Drug Administration [r]: The agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services responsible for regulating food, dietary supplements, drugs, biological medical products, blood products, medical devices, radiation-emitting devices, veterinary products, and cosmetics. ^[e]
• Fosfomycin [r]: Broad-spectrum antibiotic and enolpyruvate transferase inhibitor produced by Streptomyces fradiae. ^[e]
• Geriatrics [r]: "the branch of medicine concerned with the physiological and pathological aspects of the aged, including the clinical problems of senescence and senility."(National Library of Medicine) ^[e]
• Gram-negative bacteria [r]: Bacteria that do not retain crystal-violet dye (Gram stain) after staining and decolourizing with alcohol. ^[e]
• Klebsiella pneumoniae [r]: Gram-negative, non-motile, encapsulated, lactose fermenting, facultative anaerobic, rod shaped bacterium that causes severe pneumonitis in humans. ^[e]
• Multiple sclerosis [r]: A chronic, inflammatory, demyelinating disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). ^[e]
• Nitrofurantoin [r]: An antibiotic that is a urinary anti-infective agent effective against most Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms. ^[e]
• Phytotherapy [r]: The therapeutic use of plants or plant extracts to prevent or treat disease; it is most commonly a form of complementary and alternative medicine, following long culturally-specific traditions such as herbalism. Chemically extracted and concentration-controlled plant-derived substances are used in conventional medicine, but are usually not considered phytotherapy. ^[e]
• Protein [r]: A polymer of amino acids; basic building block of living systems. ^[e]
• Proteus mirabilis [r]: A Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria belonging to the enterobacteriaceae family; causes 90% of human infections with Proteus species, usually community-acquired ^[e]
• Proteus vulgaris [r]: Rod-shaped, Gram negative bacterium that inhabits the intestinal tracts of humans and animals, and known to cause urinary tract infections and wound infections. ^[e]
• Pyelonephritis [r]: An inflammation of the kidney and upper urinary tract that usually results from noncontagious bacterial infection of the bladder (cystitis). ^[e]
• Symptom [r]: A subjective description of an abnormal state, recounted by a patient, which is informative, but different from the objective result of a sign. ^[e]
• Urethritis [r]: inflammation of the urethra, with vague discomfort to painful urination (dysuria), urethral discharge, or both. ^[e]
• Urinary catheterization [r]: Insertion of a urinary catheter into a patient's bladder via their urethra. ^[e]