nephroticadj.
/nᵻˈfrɒtɪk/, /nɛˈfrɒtɪk/, U.S. /nəˈfrɑdɪk/ Medicine.
Of, associated with, or suffering from nephrosis.
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pyelitic1849
pyonephrotic1865
pyonephritic1876
hydronephrotic1881
nephrotic1928
anephric1944
hypernephromatous1946
1928 Amer. Jrnl. Pathol. 4 633 Every case of glomerulonephritis has a certain nephrotic element.
1940 Jrnl. Clin. Investig. 19 317/1 The albumin was much reduced in plasma, but unlike a nephrotic serum with a similar diminution of albumin, the globulin increase was most striking in the γ-fraction.
1954 Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. 178 329/2 The results demonstrated either an unchanged or a diminished hepatic synthesis of cholesterol by the nephrotic rat.
1993 Jrnl. Trop. Pediatrics 39 37/1 Trypsin concentration of the pancreatic juice was significantly decreased in nephrotic children on DCT.
Compounds
nephrotic syndrome n. a syndrome characterized by loss of albumin and other proteins from the blood into the urine, oedema, and usually hyperlipidaemia, resulting from increased glomerular permeability in various types of glomerulonephritis and certain other diseases.
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Bright's disease1830
pyelonephritis1839
nephropyosis1848
hydronephrosis1849
nephrocele1849
nephroplegy1857
pyonephrosis1867
suet affection1886
nephrosclerosis1890
nephroptosis1892
raspberry kidney1897
wandering kidney1897
hypernephroma1900
nephrosis1900
Wilms('s) or (erroneously) Wilm's tumour1910
nephrotic syndrome1931
glomerulosclerosis1936
1931 L. Leiter in Medicine 10 139 It will be the purpose of this review to indicate the evidence in favor of the existence of a definite clinical and pathological ‘entity’ known as nephrosis (‘lipoid’, ‘genuine’, etc.), to compare it with the ‘nephrotic syndrome’ in chronic glomerulonephritis and amyloidosis.
1939 Arch. Internal Med. 63 646 Throughout the last fifteen months of the patient's illness all the cardinal signs of the nephrotic syndrome were repeatedly found.
1963 Times 9 Oct. 10/7 Dr. R. Lanningan [will discuss] the variation in the electron-microscopic appearance of the kidney in the nephrotic syndrome.
2000 New Scientist 18 Nov. 105/2 (advt.) Post Doctoral Research Assistant..involves the investigation of nephrin gene function in renal glomerular filtration and nephrotic syndrome.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1928