A Client Presents with a Specific Type of Renal Calculi

question 25

Multiple Choice

A client presents with a specific type of renal calculi that is not widely prevalent. The nurse knows that this client has been undergoing chemotherapy as part of his or her treatment for cancer. Which is an associated characteristic of the type of renal calculi that is most likely to be present in this client?

• A) Urine supersaturated with cystine
• B) High purine levels in the bloodstream
• C) Alkaline pH of urine
• D) Pseudomonas infection in the urinary tract

---

Definitions:

Truth-functional Compound

A compound statement whose truth value is determined by the truth values of its constituent statements through specific logical operations.

Quantifier

A logical operator that specifies the quantity of specimens in the domain of discourse that satisfies an open formula.

Atomic Open Sentence

An expression in logic or mathematics that contains one or more variables and becomes either true or false when the variables are replaced with specific values.

Compound

Pertaining to a substance made up of two or more elements chemically combined in fixed proportions.