Nephritis Synonyms

nə-frītĭs
An acute or chronic disease of the kidneys, characterized by inflammation, degeneration, fibrosis, etc.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Bright's disease

Words Related to Nephritis

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Nephritis Sentence Examples

  • Mild cases of lupus nephritis can often simply be observed without any specific treatment; in such cases a biopsy is unnecessary.

  • This condition is not so frequently seen in the more highly differentiated cells, but may follow necrosis of secreting cells, as is found in the kidney, in corrosive sublimate poisoning and in chronic nephritis.

  • The acetate and the citrate are valuable mild diuretics in Bright's disease and in feverish conditions, and by increasing the amount of urine diminish the pathological fluids in pleuritic effusion, ascites, &c. In tubal nephritis they aid the excretion of fatty casts.

  • It is sometimes called membranous nephritis or membranous glomerulonephritis.

  • My kidney biopsy showed mesangial nephritis and it responded well to steroids.

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