| nephrons | The functional units of the kidney, consisting of the glomerulus and the attached tubule. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| nephropathia epidemica | A generally benign form of epidemic haemorrhagic fever reported in Scandinavia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nephropathic | Causing organic renal disease or impairment of renal function. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nephropathy | <nephrology, urology> Any disease of the kidneys. Origin: Gr. Pathos = disease (18 Nov 1997) |
| nephropexy | Operative fixation of a floating or mobile kidney. Origin: nephro-+ G. Pexis, fixation (05 Mar 2000) |
| nephrophthisis | 1. Suppurative nephritis with wasting of the substance of the organ. 2. Tuberculosis of the kidney. Origin: nephro-+ G. Phthisis, a wasting Familial juvenile nephrophthisis, cystic disease of renal medulla, autosomal recessive type. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nephroptosis | Prolapse of the kidney. Origin: nephro-+ G. Ptosis, a falling (05 Mar 2000) |
| nephropyosis | Synonym: pyonephrosis. Origin: nephro-+ G. Pyosis, suppuration (05 Mar 2000) |
| nephrorrhaphy | Nephropexy by suturing the kidney. Origin: nephro-+ G. Rhaphe, a suture (05 Mar 2000) |
| nephros | Official alternate term for kidney. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nephrosclerosis | Hardening (sclerosis) of the kidney usually due to disease of the blood vessels in it from atherosclerosis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nephrosclerotic | Pertaining to or causing nephrosclerosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nephroscope | <instrument> An endoscope passed into the renal pelvis to view it. Route of access may be percutaneous, through a surgically exposed kidney, or retrograde via the ureter. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nephrosis | A type of nephritis that is characterised by low serum albumin, large amount of protein in the urine and swelling (oedema). Swelling, weight gain, high blood pressure and anorexia are key features. Nephrotic syndrome can be seen with a number of illness that cause damage to the kidney glomerulus. Examples include diabetes, hereditary disorders, lupus, multiple myeloma, amyloidosis, glomerulonephritis, minimal change disease and membranous glomerulonephritis. (27 Sep 1997) |
| nephrosis, lipoid | Glomerular disease causing heavy proteinuria characterised by absence of obvious histologic glomerular changes on light microscopy. It is also called minimal change glomerular disease and minimal lesion glomerulonephritis. (12 Dec 1998) |