RENAL INSUFFICIENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does renal insufficiency mean? 

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

1. insufficient excretion of wastes by the kidneys

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RENAL INSUFFICIENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Insufficient excretion of wastes by the kidneys

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

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

 Context examples 

Increased blood levels of these peptides are associated with renal insufficiency.

(C-Terminal Telopeptide Type I Collagen, NCI Thesaurus)

The symptoms are generally the same with those of immunoglobulin-secreting myeloma; however, the incidence of renal insufficiency is lower in non-secretory myeloma.

(Non-Secretory Myeloma, NCI Thesaurus)

It has a fast onset and short duration of action and is used in edema and chronic renal insufficiency.

(Furosemide, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It affects males more often than females and is characterized by hematuria, progressive renal insufficiency, hearing loss, and ocular abnormalities.

(Alport Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Severe preeclampsia associated with any of the following findings: thrombocytopenia (platelets less than 100,000 per microliter), impaired liver function (twice normal elevation of hepatic transaminases; severe, persistent right upper quadrant or epigastric pain), progressive renal insufficiency (serum creatinine greater than 1.1 mg/dL or doubling of baseline in the absence of other renal disease), pulmonary edema, or new-onset cerebral or visual disturbances.

(HELLP Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)