Definition of glomerulonephritis in English:
glomerulonephritis
nounɡlɒˌmɛrjʊləʊnɪˈfrʌɪtɪsɡlôˌmeryəlōnəˈfrīdəs
mass nounMedicine Acute inflammation of the kidney, typically caused by an immune response.
Example sentencesExamples
- Acute rheumatic fever and poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis are the nonsuppurative complications of streptococcal pharyngitis.
- As in streptococcal pharyngitis, acute rheumatic fever and poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis most often occur in children.
- Leading causes of kidney failure are diabetes, followed by hypertension, glomerulonephritis, and cystic kidney and urologic diseases.
- Septic arthritis and acute glomerulonephritis have occurred following ear piercing, and infectious endocarditis has been reported after body piercing.
- Late effects of the kidney inflammation glomerulonephritis