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renal
[ reen-l ]
adjective
- of or relating to the kidneys or the surrounding regions.
renal
/ ˈriːnəl /
adjective
- of, relating to, resembling, or situated near the kidney
renal
/ rē′nəl /
- Relating to or involving the kidneys.
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Other Words From
- inter·renal adjective
- post·renal adjective
- pre·renal adjective
- super·renal adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of renal1
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Example Sentences
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.
She has developed end-stage renal failure, and is in urgent need of a kidney transplant.
In 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.
It is possible—as in urate infarcts of infants—for urates to be molded into cylindric bodies within the renal tubules.
Renal cells are abundant in parenchymatous nephritis, especially the acute form.
(a) Epithelial casts contain epithelial cells from the renal tubules.
Granular and fatty casts, therefore, always indicate partial or complete disintegration of the renal epithelium.
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