Exercise 5. Answer the questions: What is the role of kidneys in the human body?
What happens when the kidneys inflame?
How many types of acute nephritis are there?
Give brief information for all types of acute nephritis (general characteristics, causes).
Name the risk factors for acute nephritis.
List the most common symptoms for all three types of nephritis.
What diagnostic tests may be needed to confirm a case of acute nephritis?
What medications may be administered to patients with acute nephritis?
Exercise 6. Translate the word combinations into English: To be comprised of two bean-shaped organs; to lead to kidney failure; to swell from the inflammation; response to a foreign substance; to travel up the ureters; to pass out of the body through the urethra; formation of kidney stones; to behave as filtering units; an immune system disease, such as lupus; pain in the pelvis; cloudy urine with blood or pus; to confirm a case of acute nephritis.
Exercise 7. Match the following terms with their definitions: