nephropathy

English

Etymology

From nephro- +‎ -pathy.

Noun

nephropathy (plural nephropathies)

1. (pathology) Damage to, disease of, or abnormality of the kidneys.
   • 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%).

Synonyms

• kidney disease
• nephrosis
• renal disorder
• renopathy

Derived terms

• Balkan endemic nephropathy
• epidemic nephropathy
• Mesoamerican nephropathy
• nephropathic

Translations

disorder of the kidney

• Catalan: nefropatia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: munuaissairaus (disease), munuaisvaurio (damage), nefropatia (fi)
• Greek: νεφροπάθεια (el) f (nefropátheia)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nefropati m

• Spanish: nefropatía f

Further reading

• nephropathy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• phrenopathy