RENAL FAILURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does renal failure mean? 

• RENAL FAILURE (noun)
  The noun RENAL FAILURE has 1 sense:

1. inability of the kidneys to excrete wastes and to help maintain the electrolyte balance

  Familiarity information: RENAL FAILURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RENAL FAILURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inability of the kidneys to excrete wastes and to help maintain the electrolyte balance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

kidney failure; renal failure

Hypernyms ("renal failure" is a kind of...):

failure (loss of ability to function normally)

kidney disease; nephropathy; nephrosis; renal disorder (a disease affecting the kidneys)

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

acute kidney failure; acute renal failure (renal failure associated with burns or other trauma or with acute infection or obstruction of the urinary tract)

chronic kidney failure; chronic renal failure (renal failure that can result from a variety of systemic disorders)

 Context examples 

It may be acute or chronic, focal or diffuse, and it may lead to renal failure.

(Glomerulonephritis, NCI Thesaurus)

Iobitridol is rapidly removed by the kidneys in an unchanged form, and in cases of renal failure, heterotropic excretion occurs via the biliary route.

(Iobitridol, NCI Thesaurus)

It is transmitted by rodents and is manifested with fever, hemorrhage, and renal failure.

(Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include intellectual disability, hepatomegaly, hepatic failure, and renal failure.

(Galactosemia, NCI Thesaurus)

It may be the result of physical injury, toxic substances, viral diseases, diabetes, renal failure, cancer, and drugs.

(Neuropathy, NCI Thesaurus)

Long term complications include hepatic and renal failure.

(Hereditary Fructose Intolerance, NCI Thesaurus)

The progressive bilateral kidney damage results in renal failure.

(Familial Juvenile Nephronophthisis, NCI Thesaurus)

Kidney transplantation, on the other hand, is necessary when these patients reach terminal stages of renal failure, an expected chronic complication of MMA.

(Elevated hormone flags liver problems in mice with methylmalonic acidemia, National Institutes of Health)

The GH/IGF-I axis in chronic renal failure (CRF) is changed markedly compared with the normal axis.

(Food Intake and Energy Homeostasis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

It may be associated with bilateral microcystic renal disease which may lead to renal failure.

(Jeune Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)