arterial nephrosclerosis

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Patchy atrophic scarring of the kidney due to arteriosclerotic narrowing of the lumens of large branches of the renal artery; it occurs in the aged or in hypertensive persons and occasionally causes hypertension.

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Words nearby arterial nephrosclerosis

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How to use arterial nephrosclerosis in a sentence

Over time, the theory goes, inflammation causes trouble—plaques and less pliable arterial walls.
Maybe You Shouldn't Run a Marathon|Kent Sepkowitz|November 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Heavy lacerations, arterial bleeding, left leg and left arm.
Friends on the Line: Excerpt from Brian Mockenhaupt’s “The Living and the Dead”|Brian Mockenhaupt|November 21, 2012|DAILY BEAST
By respiration the black venous blood is transformed into red arterial blood and regenerated.
Urania|Camille Flammarion
He knew, also, that the pulmonary veins conducted arterial blood, and that the pericardium was a shut sac.
An Epitome of the History of Medicine|Roswell Park

In 1687 Cowper saw the passage of the arterial into the venous current in the mesentery of a cat.
An Epitome of the History of Medicine|Roswell Park
A sample of the dog's arterial blood contained ten per cent of acetylene.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899|Various
The heart has a pair of venous ostia, often blending into one, and an anterior arterial aorta.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6|Various