WordNet
n. inability of the kidneys to excrete wastes and to help maintain the electrolyte balance [syn: kidney failure]
Usage examples of "renal failure".
We were lucky on two counts: because she only has one kidney, they needed to use a minimum dose to cause the renal failure.
In his mind, he could see her as she had been before the renal failure.
Did you know he funded a private clinic where people in the last stages of renal failure can wait for a kidney?
The woman who would have succeeded me firstCarlotta Bellinveaudeveloped intractible renal failure after treatment for a routine infection.
And to the discovery that Phimie's blood pressure was so high-210 over 126-that she was in a hypertensive crisis, at risk of a stroke, renal failure, and other life-threatening complications.
But babies, defective or not, weren't the same as old folks dying of renal failure or car-crash victims brought in still somehow alive in spite of heads which were only half there or steering-wheel-sized holes in their guts.
They suspected renal failure, but they've had her on a drip and liquids for three days.