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glomerulonephritis

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From glomerulo- +‎ nephritis.

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glomerulonephritis (countable and uncountable, plural glomerulonephritides or glomerulonephrites)

  1. (medicine) A form of nephritis characterized by inflammation of the glomeruli.
    Hypernyms: nephritis, nephropathy
    Meronym: glomerulitis
    • 2015 July 17, “The Addition of Vascular Calcification Scores to Traditional Risk Factors Improves Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      The recorded causes of kidney disease were as follows: diabetic nephropathy (in 21% of the patients), nephroangiosclerosis and glomerulonephritis (18%), interstitial nephropathy (7%), hypertensive nephropathy (5%), polykystosis (5%) and other recorded diagnoses (hereditary disease, solitary kidney, dysglobulinemia, and systemic disease) (22%).
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