The patient, who had recently been treated for a UTI, presented with fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, and lumbar pain. She was diagnosed with an inflammation of the renal pelvis and kidneys or:

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The combining form that means rib is:

The combining form spondyl/o is defined as:

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The suffix -physis is defined as a:

The term that means abnormal condition of (lateral) curved (spine):

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The surgeon told the patient who had a drooping kidney that it was necessary to attach the kidney back in place by performing a:

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