Definition of Renal insufficiency

1. Noun. Insufficient excretion of wastes by the kidneys.


Medical Definition of Renal insufficiency

1. Defective function of the kidneys, with accumulation of waste products (particularly nitrogenous) in the blood. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Renal Insufficiency

renal cortical lobule
renal diabetes
renal disorder
renal epistaxis
renal failure
renal fascia
renal fibrocystic osteosis
renal ganglia
renal glycosuria
renal haematuria
renal haemorrhage
renal hypertension
renal hypoplasia
renal impression
renal infantilism
renal insufficiency (current term)
renal labyrinth
renal lithiasis
renal lobe
renal medulla
renal nanism
renal osteitis fibrosa
renal osteodystrophy
renal papilla
renal papillary necrosis
renal pelvis
renal plasma flow
renal plexus
renal portal system

Literary usage of Renal insufficiency

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1892)
"It is simply astonishing to see how common renal insufficiency is in most ... I think the determining of the possible presence of renal insufficiency is ..."

2. A Text-book of Physiology: Normal and Pathological. For Students and by Winfield Scott Hall (1905)
"renal insufficiency. Hy this is meant deficient urinary depuration. It may IK- called tin- early stage of actual nephritis, the prodromal condition of ..."

3. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1917)
"In our experience 25 this has been mainly in patients with cardiac insufficiency rather than renal insufficiency. Without cardiac insufficiency and with ..."

4. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1895)
"THE RELATIONS OF renal insufficiency TO OPERATIONS. BY CC FREDERICK, MD, BUFFALO. DURING my entire experience in the practice of medicine I have been much ..."

5. A Manual of Obstetrics by William Alexander Newman Dorland (1896)
"True, the immediate cause of the albuminuria is patent : it results from a renal insufficiency, owing to which the proper elimination of the effete material ..."

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