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Definition of Nephritis
1. Noun. An inflammation of the kidney.
Generic synonyms: Kidney Disease, Nephropathy, Nephrosis, Renal Disorder
Specialized synonyms: Glomerulonephritis
Derivative terms: Nephritic
Definition of Nephritis
1. n. An inflammation of the kidneys.
Definition of Nephritis
1. Noun. (pathology) Inflammation of the kidney. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nephritis
1. [n -TISES or -TIDES]
Medical Definition of Nephritis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Nephritis
Literary usage of Nephritis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"WAR NE PII HI TI S Acute nephritis of a mild, self-limiting type has been "epidemic"
... Outbreaks of this form of nephritis had not been described before, ..."
2. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: designed for the use of by William Osler (1892)
"Delafield recognizes a chronic diffuse nephritis with exudation and a chronic
productive diffuse nephritis without exudation, the latter corresponding to ..."
3. Manual of the International List of Causes of Death: Based on the Second by United States Bureau of the Census, Cressy Livingston Wilbur (1911)
"Acute nephritis. SYSTE NOTE.—When acute nephritis is a sequel of an infective
disease, eg, scarlet ferf the disease causing the nephritis should be stated ..."
4. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"In chronic catarrhal nephritis and its termination, the cirrhosis of the kidneys,
the patient voids large quantities of a pale, watery urine, ..."
5. Report. by Henry Phipps Institute (1907)
"Of the forty-two cases of acute parenchymatous nephritis, only two showed sufficient
desquamation of epithelial cells in the lumen of the convoluted tubules ..."
6. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1899)
"Chronic nephritis in children and adolescents is a condition which has been much
overlooked. Especially is this true of the chronic interstitial type ..."
7. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1919)
"LEWIS WEBB HILL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL nephritis IN CHILDREN Presentation of 3 Cases,
and Discussion of the Differences Between nephritis in the Child and in ..."
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