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Nephropathy

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Noun
  1. 1
    Damage to, disease of, or abnormality of the kidneys.

    "The recorded causes of kidney disease were as follows: diabetic nephropathy (in 21% of the patients), nephroangiosclerosis and glomerulonephritis (18%), interstitial nephropathy (7%), hypertensive nephropathy (5%), polykystosis (5%) and other recorded diagnoses (hereditary disease, solitary kidney, dysglobulinemia, and systemic disease) (22%)."

  2. 2
    a disease affecting the kidneys wordnet

Etymology

From nephro- + -pathy.

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