renal
of or relating to the kidneys or the surrounding regions.
Origin of renal
1Other words from renal
- in·ter·re·nal, adjective
- post·re·nal, adjective
- pre·re·nal, adjective
- su·per·re·nal, adjective
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How to use renal in a sentence
I’d also lost about a third of my blood and was so dehydrated that I was experiencing the beginnings of renal failure.
That’s when they found out that it was his kidneys — renal cancer — and it had spread to his bones.
In the shadow of the towers: Five lives and a world transformed | Joby Warrick, Souad Mekhennet | September 2, 2021 | Washington PostThe cause was renal failure as a result of diabetes, his family said in a statement.
Benigno Aquino III, Philippine president who fought corruption and Chinese territorial claims, dies at 61 | Regine Cabato, William Branigin | June 24, 2021 | Washington PostIndeed, a patient with end-stage renal disease has a 20 percent co-pay, not just for dialysis sessions but for other issues that may go along with kidney failure.
Is Dialysis a Test Case of Medicare for All? (Ep. 457) | Stephen J. Dubner | April 8, 2021 | FreakonomicsAbout one of three adults with diabetes has some form of kidney disease, and about 30 percent of people worldwide with end-stage renal disease are diabetics.
Is Dialysis a Test Case of Medicare for All? (Ep. 457) | Stephen J. Dubner | April 8, 2021 | Freakonomics
Context: The Irish playwright uttered these words on his deathbed before dying of renal failure.
One, suffering from renal failure, had been in the ICU bed next to Dighe.
Mumbai on Edge With Shiv Sena Founder Bal Thackeray Ill | Dilip D’Souza | November 16, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTShe has developed end-stage renal failure, and is in urgent need of a kidney transplant.
The Scott Sisters' Life Sentence for $11 | Constantino Diaz-Duran | December 31, 2010 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 1937, the blond bombshell Jean Harlow died of renal failure at the age of 26, while filming Saratoga with Clark Gable.
In 2001, Batista gave one of his kidneys to Dawnell, 44, who had suffered from renal disease for many years.
It is small in cloudy swelling from toxins and drugs, and variable in renal tuberculosis and neoplasms.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddIt is possible—as in urate infarcts of infants—for urates to be molded into cylindric bodies within the renal tubules.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell Toddrenal cells are abundant in parenchymatous nephritis, especially the acute form.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell Todd(a) Epithelial casts contain epithelial cells from the renal tubules.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddGranular and fatty casts, therefore, always indicate partial or complete disintegration of the renal epithelium.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell Todd
British Dictionary definitions for renal
/ (ˈriːnəl) /
of, relating to, resembling, or situated near the kidney
Origin of renal
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for renal
[ rē′nəl ]
Relating to or involving the kidneys.
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Cultural definitions for renal
[ (reen-l) ]
A descriptive term for the kidneys.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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