RENAL DISORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does renal disorder mean? 

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

1. a disease affecting the kidneys

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RENAL DISORDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disease affecting the kidneys

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

kidney disease; nephropathy; nephrosis; renal disorder

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

uropathy (any pathology of the urinary tract)

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

Bright's disease; nephritis (an inflammation of the kidney)

nephroangiosclerosis; nephrosclerosis (kidney disease that is usually associated with hypertension; sclerosis of the renal arterioles reduces blood flow that can lead to kidney failure and heart failure)

PKD; polycystic kidney disease (kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts; often leads to kidney failure)

polyuria (renal disorder characterized by the production of large volumes of pale dilute urine; often associated with diabetes)

kidney failure; renal failure (inability of the kidneys to excrete wastes and to help maintain the electrolyte balance)

renal insufficiency (insufficient excretion of wastes by the kidneys)

 Context examples 

A renal disorder characterized by glomerular damage due to ischemia.

(Ischemic Glomerulopathy, NCI Thesaurus)

A renal disorder characterized by inflammation and edema of the interstitial tissue of the kidney.

(Interstitial Nephritis, NCI Thesaurus)

A renal disorder characterized by damage in the glomeruli.

(Glomerulonephritis, NCI Thesaurus)

A congenital renal disorder characterized by the presence of small cysts in the renal cortex and/or renal medulla.

(Microcystic Renal Disease, NCI Thesaurus)