NEPHRITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nephritis mean? 

• NEPHRITIS (noun)
  The noun NEPHRITIS has 1 sense:

1. an inflammation of the kidney

  Familiarity information: NEPHRITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEPHRITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inflammation of the kidney

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

Bright's disease; nephritis

Hypernyms ("nephritis" is a kind of...):

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

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

glomerulonephritis (nephritis marked by inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney; characterized by decreased production of urine and by the presence of blood and protein in the urine and by edema)

Derivation:

nephritic (affected by nephritis)

 Context examples 

Mutation of the gene is associated with karyomegalic interstitial nephritis.

(FAN1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Progressive tubulointerstitial nephritis inherited in an autosomal recessive manner.

(Familial Juvenile Nephronophthisis, NCI Thesaurus)

Most animals older than 2 years exhibit small local areas of nephritis; less than 25% show severe nephritis (Snell 1967).

(F344, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)