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NEPHRITIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An inflammation of the kidney
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("nephritis" is a kind of...):
kidney disease; nephropathy; nephrosis; renal disorder (a disease affecting the kidneys)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nephritis"):
glomerulonephritis (nephritis marked by inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney; characterized by decreased production of urine and by the presence of blood and protein in the urine and by edema)
Derivation:
nephritic (affected by nephritis)
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