nephritic
Britishadjective
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of or relating to the kidneys
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relating to or affected with nephritis
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The pathologists would like to get Hero Jones's nephritic kidney slices for a study by paleopathologists, who try to determine the history and pattern of disease.
From Time Magazine Archive
Back in Santo Domingo white-haired nephritic President Horacio Vasquez prudently sent his wife to the American Legation, retired to the city's fortress, took command of the garrison.
From Time Magazine Archive
At fifty years of age, he began to be grievously afflicted with the stone and nephritic colic; but bore with cheerfulness the most excruciating pains of his distemper.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
The small, contracted, wiry artery of a chronic nephritic may feel like a pipe stem, but if properly felt the mistake will not be made of considering such an artery an unusually sclerosed one.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
Colonel Townshend, a gentleman of honour and integrity, had for many years been afflicted with a nephritic complaint.
From Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems by W. E. (William Edmondstoune) Aytoun
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