kidneykid‧ney /ˈkɪdni/ ●●○ noun 
[countable] one of the two organs in your lower back that separate waste products from your blood and make urine: 
a kidney transplant2[countable, uncountable] one or more of these organs from an animal, used as food: steak and kidney pie
WORD ORIGINkidney
Origin:
1300-1400 Perhaps from Old English cwith ‘abdomen, womb’ + æg ‘egg’EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- A kidney, thought to be perfectly healthy was transplanted into a patient on chronic dialysis.
- For similar reasons the presence of severe lung disease and chronic kidney disease is a contraindication to disulfiram administration.
- I wondered if there might be a pickled heart tucked in among all the livers, kidneys, and spleens.
- Pollution-related illnesses included kidney disease, anaemia and defects in the endocrine system.
- She has been diagnosed with tuberculosis, kidney problems and malnutrition, health workers say.
- The excretion of mercury by the kidney generally forms the basis for measurement of exposure.
- They are waiting for a kidney donor and time is running out fast.
- Transplant surgeons hope the technique will help to increase live kidney donations and to cut waiting lists.
Longman Language Activatorto give money, food etc in order to help people
to give money to an organization that will use it to help people who are poor, sick, in trouble etc: · The British give animal welfare organizations over £200 million per year.· Please give generously, these children need your help.· We would be grateful for any donation that you are prepared to give.give something to somebody: · Local people have given over $100,000 to our Help a Child appeal.give to: · About a quarter of Britons regularly give to charity.
to give money, or something useful or valuable, in order to help people - use this especially about things that are given by companies or organizations: · The books were donated by a local publishing company.donate something to something: · The concert organizers say they will donate all profits to charity.
to give an amount of money to an organization that will use it to help people: · We're collecting money to build a hostel for homeless people - would you like to make a donation?make a donation to: · The company made several large donations to charities.
if something such as a sum of money goes to someone, especially to a group of people who are poor, hungry, sick etc, it is given to them: · All the money raised will go to local charities.
an organization that collects money or goods from people who give them, and uses them to help people who need help: · Elton John has campaigned for a number of AIDS charities.give/donate something to charity: · The corporation has donated nearly $70 million to children's charities over the past 17 years.· Clear out all the clothes you never wear, and give them to charity.go to charity: · All profits from the show will go to charity.do something for charity: · They aim to walk 30 miles for charity.a charity ball/lunch/concert etc (=an event organized to make money for charity): · Porter spent his retirement years organizing charity golf tournaments throughout the United States.
a person, organization, or country that gives something, especially money, to another organization or country so that they can use it to help other people: · Money for the new health centre has come mostly from private donors.· Some donor countries have criticized the way in which their aid is being distributed.
someone who gives blood or a part of their body so that it can be used in the medical treatment of someone else: · The patient needs a liver transplant, and the search has begun for a suitable donor.· Unless more blood donors come forward, it may be necessary to cancel some operations.
someone who gives something, especially a large amount of money, to an organization or institution such as a school, hospital or library: · Getty had been the museum's chief benefactor.· The painting was bought by an anonymous benefactor, and donated to the Museum of Modern Art.
a rich person who gives a lot of money to help poorer people: · In Victorian times, factory owners were often also philanthropists.· the millionaire philanthropist, Graham Paulo
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES steak and kidney puddingCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1· He is being treated for kidney disease.
· There is a shortage of kidney donors.
· The technique keeps the donor heart beating while it is transported.
· He developed a severe throat infection.
· He was born with heart problems.
steak and kidney pudding· Heat the red kidney beans in the mixture of tomato puree, chilli sauce and lemon juice.· Drain and rinse the red kidney beans then mash them with a fork.· Serve with a red kidney bean salad.
NOUN· Heat the red kidney beans in the mixture of tomato puree, chilli sauce and lemon juice.· Both types belong to the kidney bean family and have a slightly nutty flavour.· Drain and rinse the chick peas and kidney beans and combine with other beans. 3.· Add the kidney beans and a little water if required and simmer for a further 5 minutes.· This is all wrong, as chilli should really be made with pinto beans, a member of the kidney bean family.· Drain and rinse the red kidney beans then mash them with a fork.· Serve with a red kidney bean salad.· Add the tomatoes and kidney beans and bring to the boil. 2.
· Although most recover completely from the infection, some suffer kidney damage which can be permanent, and can kill.· Prolonged usage may result in hypothyroidism or kidney damage.· If it laps up a little of this, the ethylene glycol may cause irreversible kidney damage.· The possible side effects are severe kidney damage.· Lead poisoning can cause kidney damage, injury to the central and peripheral nervous system and brain damage in particularly aggravated cases.
· As his condition deteriorated he was sent to hospital where he is now being treated on a kidney dialysis machine.· Union Carbide dropped development of a suitcase-size kidney dialysis unit.· Make your own kidney dialysis machine using an old cereal packet, some Sellotape and a used toilet roll.· Medicare pays $ X for each kidney dialysis, $ Y for a double heart bypass.· He spent three hours, three times a week on a kidney dialysis machine.· Spinning or selling of its kidney dialysis unit c. Anheuser-Busch Cos. 3.
· This may have left him with a condition known as Schönlein-Henoch Syndrome, together with the beginnings of chronic kidney disease.· Ten percent to 21 % of diabetics have nephropathy, or kidney disease, a frequent complication of diabetes.· His Ed Blackwell playing activity was restricted through kidney disease, which required regular use of a dialysis machine far many years.· For similar reasons the presence of severe lung disease and chronic kidney disease is a contraindication to disulfiram administration.· No one doubts the right of the patient with kidney disease to decline treatment.· A lab report detects a kidney disease.· Pollution-related illnesses included kidney disease, anaemia and defects in the endocrine system.· He is reported to be suffering from a crippling kidney disease.
· She was born with one kidney, and, at 5, received a donor kidney.
· Most of what is known about acute aluminium poisoning comes from studying patients treated for kidney failure by dialysis.· People with kidney failure are increasingly undergoing bypass and vessel-opening procedures.· He actually died of kidney failure, set off by a viral infection probably contracted during a Masonic meeting in mid-November.· Long-term use led to heart damage, stroke, kidney failure, and psychosis in some cases.· Of the 195 hospital cases, 55 developed kidney failure and four children died.· Kumi was 29 days old when she was euthanized after it was found she had kidney failure and was in severe pain.· If it fails, diabetes may develop, which can cause blindness and kidney failure. 7.· The soap can cause foetal damage, anaemia and kidney failure if too much is absorbed through the skin.
· There was a manic air to the way he ate his steak and kidney pie.· Nobody could do very much to a steak and kidney pie, she thought.· Often I could only afford a small steak and kidney pie and I'd give it to him, or a chop.· She put down her newspaper as Sandra brought over the steak and kidney pie.· Well it's like steak and kidney pie.
· He had some minor heart ailment, and then a kidney problem which could probably have been treated.· She has been diagnosed with tuberculosis, kidney problems and malnutrition, health workers say.· He had long been reported ill with kidney problems and was rumoured to have had throat cancer.· She had been having kidney problems before that and her kidneys began to fail.· Low in sodium and nitrates, this is suitable for those with heart and kidney problems.
· It seems he's able to lay on steak and kidney pudding.· I wondered how they would take to steak and kidney pudding, oxtail soup, and plum duff.· Brendan's steak and kidney pudding is definitive.
· BFoy struggled through a relapse, hospitalized for kidney stones, a side effect of his drug regimen.· They did know that despite those high amounts, they could, with careful management, prevent kidney stones.· Women get kidney stones most often during that same age period as a result of an infection that occurs with pregnancy.· Frequently, hypercalciuria and kidney stones are the presenting complaint.· The news about calcium and kidney stones is a case in point.· Those who got the most calcium from their diets were at lower risk for kidney stones.· Treatment Progress Since 1980, treatment for serious kidney stones has moved from huge incisions, to punctures, to non-invasive techniques.· If you go back to the earliest burial grounds, you will find kidney stones and gall stones.
· For 17 years, 52-year-old Anthony waited in vain for a kidney transplant.· This then chooses the most suitable hospital among those in its district that can perform a kidney transplant.· When he was 18 months old he underwent a kidney transplant.· He had a kidney transplant, 16 other operations and almost two years on dialysis.· Vaccines, antibiotics, insulin for diabetes and kidney transplants are just a few examples.
VERB· We are told this was caused by a mild kidney infection.· Lead poisoning can cause kidney damage, injury to the central and peripheral nervous system and brain damage in particularly aggravated cases.· It could also cause liver and kidney malfunction and attack the central nervous system.· If it fails, diabetes may develop, which can cause blindness and kidney failure. 7.· If it laps up a little of this, the ethylene glycol may cause irreversible kidney damage.
· Erma Bombeck touched so many lives that scores of readers offered to donate kidneys to replace her failing organs.
· Since drugs are costly, it might be desirable to give the drug when it is less readily removed by the kidneys.· She underwent surgery to remove a ureter and kidney as a result of the cancer and currently is receiving chemotherapy.· Teresa Proehl of Fremont had a rare and painful condition that could be cured by surgically removing a kidney.
· The committee had heard she sold her kidney for £3,265.· Spinning or selling of its kidney dialysis unit c. Anheuser-Busch Cos. 3.
[countable] one of the two organs in your lower back that separate waste products from your blood and make urine: a kidney transplant2[countable, uncountable] one or more of these organs from an animal, used as food: steak and kidney pie