Medical Definition of Nephroid
1. Kidney-shaped; resembling a kidney. Synonym: reniform. Origin: nephro-+ G. Eidos, resemblance (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nephroid
Literary usage of Nephroid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mathematical Questions and Solutions, from "The Educational Times", with edited by Constance I Marks (1901)
"(nephroid = two-cusped epicycloid; astroid = four-cusped hypocycloid. ...
The nephroid is an epicycloid generated by a point in the circumference of a ..."
2. A Treatise on the Cycloid and All Forms of Cycloidal Curves, and on the Use by Richard Anthony Proctor (1878)
"The area between one arc of the nephroid and the base is equal to four times the
... The evolute of a nephroid is drawn, the evolute of this evolute, ..."
3. The Cardioide and Some of Its Related Curves: Inaugural Dissertation Der by Raymond Clare Archibald (1900)
"Hence, (§ 13), the evolute of this Cayley sextic- is a nephroid and indeed the
one considered in the last two paragraphs. 16. ..."
4. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1846)
"The nephroid cancer of M. Recamier, from some resemblance to the structure of
the kidney.—5. The fasciculate cancer of Müller. " I am inclined," says the ..."
5. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science; Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1854)
"... to a kidney — as 'nephroid cancer," so called because the morbid growth
resembles tho kidney in structure. ..."
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