| arteriolar nephrosclerosis | <nephrology> Refers to the destructive changes that occur in the blood vessels of the kidney due to severe hypertension (malignant hypertension). Prolonged hypertension can result in renal failure. (17 Oct 1997) |
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| arteriolar | <anatomy> Pertaining to or resembling arterioles. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| arteriolar network | A vascular network formed by anastomoses between minute arteries just before they become capillaries. Synonym: rete arteriosum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| arteriolar sclerosis | <cardiology, disease> Sclerosis and thickening of the walls of the smaller arteries (arterioles). Hyaline arteriolosclerosis, in which there is homogeneous pink hyaline thickening of the arteriolar walls, is associated with benign nephrosclerosis. Hyperplastic arteriolosclerosis, in which there is a concentric thickening with progressive narrowing of the lumina may be associated with malignant hypertension, nephrosclerosis and scleroderma. (17 Oct 1997) |
| arterial nephrosclerosis | Patchy atrophic scarring of the kidney due to arteriosclerotic narrowing of the lumens of large branches of the renal artery, occurring in old or hypertensive persons and occasionally causing hypertension. Synonym: arterionephrosclerosis, senile nephrosclerosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| benign nephrosclerosis | <nephrology> Refers to the destructive changes that occur in the blood vessels of the kidney due to severe hypertension (malignant hypertension). Prolonged hypertension can result in renal failure. (17 Oct 1997) |
| malignant nephrosclerosis | The renal changes in malignant hypertension; subcapsular petechiae, necrosis in the walls of scattered afferent glomerular arterioles, and red blood cells and casts in the urine, with uraemia as a common termination. (05 Mar 2000) |
| senile nephrosclerosis | Patchy atrophic scarring of the kidney due to arteriosclerotic narrowing of the lumens of large branches of the renal artery, occurring in old or hypertensive persons and occasionally causing hypertension. Synonym: arterionephrosclerosis, senile nephrosclerosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nephrosclerosis | Hardening (sclerosis) of the kidney usually due to disease of the blood vessels in it from atherosclerosis. (12 Dec 1998) |