PYELONEPHRITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pyelonephritis mean? 

• PYELONEPHRITIS (noun)
  The noun PYELONEPHRITIS has 1 sense:

1. inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis caused by bacterial infection

  Familiarity information: PYELONEPHRITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PYELONEPHRITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis caused by bacterial infection

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("pyelonephritis" is a kind of...):

urinary tract infection (any infection of any of the organs of the urinary tract)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pyelonephritis"):

acute pyelonephritis (pyelonephritis resulting from the spread of a bladder infection)

chronic pyelonephritis (pyelonephritis that develops slowly and can lead to renal failure if untreated; often associated with a kidney stone or with narrowing of the urinary passageways)

 Context examples 

C. pilosum causes urinary tract infection and pyelonephritis.

(Corynebacterium pilosum, NCI Thesaurus)

C. renale is an opportunistic pathogen that causes ascending urinary infection, pyelonephritis and abscesses.

(Corynebacterium renale, NCI Thesaurus)