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Answer for the clue "Near the kidneys ", 5 letters:
renal
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Word definitions for renal in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from French rénal and directly from Late Latin renalis "of or belonging to kidneys," from Latin ren (plural renes ) "kidneys."
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Renal \Re"nal\ (r[=e]"nal), a. [L. renalis, fr. renes the kidneys or reins: cf. F. r['e]nal. See Reins .] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the kidneys; in the region of the kidneys. Renal capsules or Renal glands , the suprarenal capsules. See under Capsule ...
Usage examples of renal.
We cannot, In conclusion, too strongly condemn the general resort to strong diuretics so often prescribed by physicians for all forms of renal maladies, but which, by over-stimulating the already weak and delicate kidneys, only aggravate and render incurable thousands of cases annually.
Note the connection of each kidney with the aorta and the inferior vena cava by the renal artery and the renal vein.
He carefully followed the clamped artery to its source, confirming it was the renal artery and not the superior mesenteric, which for a moment she had obviously feared it might be.
Bazy of Paris ureterocystoneostomy, and suggested by him as a substitute for nephrectomy in those cases in which the renal organs are unaffected.
So nucleated red cells in a patient with renal colic almost always meant someone faking the symptoms, and that usually meant an addict.
Although the microscope is of inestimable value in examining the renal excretion, it does not entirely supersede other valuable instruments and chemical re-agents in determining constitutional changes.
By the end of the decade powerful immunosuppressive drugs, such as 6-mercaptopurine, had been shown to be capable of holding in abeyance the reactivity of dogs to renal homografts, and soon afterward this principle was successfully extended to man.
To stabilize a patient with kidney disease who is on renal dialysis, the doctors may impose fluid restrictions so strict that patients end up begging for an ice cube in the middle of the night.
Turned out he died of acute renal failure, with evidence of liver damage, cardiovascular damage with circulatory collapse, tubular necrosis—.
In August he lost three patients in a row, all to conditions that would have needed elaborate, costly equipment and procedures: renal failure, aortic aneurysm, aneurism, narcotic overdose.
It has been much employed as a diuretic, an aqueous solution having been found very useful in cardiac and renal dropsies.
It affected the renal blood supply, increasing cardiac output without increasing the need for cardiac oxygen consumption.
He dredged his memory for the details of how it worked on the renal blood supply, increasing cardiac output without increasing the need for oxygen consumption.
I should find fibrinoid changes in the renal microvasculature or early nephrosclerosis.
She is already developing renal shutdown, and I had to tie off the hepatic artery to control the bleeding of her ruptured liver.