WordNet
n. a disease affecting the kidneys [syn: renal disorder, nephropathy, nephrosis]
Wikipedia
Kidney disease, also known as nephropathy or renal disease, is damage to or disease of a kidney. Nephritis is inflammatory kidney disease. Nephrosis is noninflammatory nephropathy. Kidney disease usually causes kidney failure ( renal failure) to more or less degree, with the amount depending on the type of disease. In precise usage, disease denotes the structural and etiologic disease entity whereas failure denotes the dysfunction (lack of working well, that is, impaired renal function); but in common usage these meanings overlap; for example, the terms chronic kidney disease and chronic renal failure are usually considered synonymous. Acute kidney disease has often been called acute renal failure, although nephrologists now often tend to call it acute kidney injury. About 1 in 8 Americans suffer from chronic kidney disease.
Usage examples of "kidney disease".
The same effect can be produced by heart disease, liver disease, or kidney disease, each by a different mechanism.
The result of his attentions was that I contracted a kidney disease and became so ill that the doctor almost washed his hands of me.
In fact she was deeply troubled by a kidney disease which had been diagnosed in 1978.
He was a thirty-nine-year-old man with bilateral end-stage kidney disease.
It has been prescribed instead of digitalis, and sometimes succeeds where digitalis fails, especially where there is kidney disease.
Muskar diagnosed kidney disease, but Lankh says it's a prechangeover syndrome, so they're not even treating the kidney disease.
The chief use of Juniper is as an adjuvant to diuretics in dropsy depending on heart, liver or kidney disease.
He also had an irregular heart rhythm, high blood pressure, and kidney disease.
This eight-year-old girl died unexpectantly of a congenital kidney disease.
And Hope turned out to have kidney disease, an evident complication of his poisoning some years before.