renal

[reen-l]

adjective

1. of or relating to the kidneys or the surrounding regions.

renal

/ ˈriːnəl /

adjective

1. of, relating to, resembling, or situated near the kidney

renal

1. Relating to or involving the kidneys.

renal

1. A descriptive term for the kidneys.

Other Word Forms

• interrenal adjective
• postrenal adjective
• prerenal adjective
• superrenal adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of renal¹

1650–60; < Late Latin rēnālis, equivalent to Latin rēn ( ēs ) kidneys (plural) + -ālis -al ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of renal¹

C17: from French, from Late Latin rēnālis , from Latin rēnēs kidneys, of obscure origin

Example Sentences

Novartis also plans to invest $80 million in another site in Switzerland, also near Basel, to boost production of RNA treatments, innovative therapies used particularly for cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases.

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She was suffering from complications from surgery, not from cancer or renal failure; she could have lived another 10 years, for all we knew.

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“My mother had passed and my father was going through dialysis and had fallen a couple of times. He needed help,” Davis said of his father, who died five years later of renal failure.

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Almost half of patients in the late-phase trial who took the drug in combination with standard treatment saw a complete renal response compared with 33.1% of patients taking only the standard treatment, Roche said.

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Charlotte was diagnosed with stage one TFE3 renal cell carcinoma - a rare form of kidney cancer.

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