renal failure
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈrɛnəl ˈfeɪljər/
- Specialized
:
insuficiencia renal
- Doctors diagnosed her with renal failure, which means her kidneys can no longer filter waste effectively.
- chronic renal failure
- acute renal failure
- patients with renal failure
He suffers from blood poisoning, recovers from that and then has a heart attack and will eventually succumb to renal failure.
- He suffers from blood poisoning, recovers from that and then has a heart attack and will eventually succumb to renal failure.
- CBDPSP, all these other ones and including late stage cancers, including chronic renal failure.
Examples
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Therefore, HRS should be diagnosed only if renal failure persists after complete resolution of the infection.
Academic text (2003) -
Because of poor perfusion, children may also develop acute renal failure.
Academic text (2007) -
In some cases, renal failure may not be due to a single cause but to a combination.
Academic text (2003) -
That girl has renal failure due to juvenile diabetes.
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And it's progressed to chronic renal failure.
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She's been in renal failure for months now.
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A high level of suspicion and early aggressive treatment can prevent acute renal failure.
Academic text (2007) -
Reduce the incidence of end-stage renal failure by one third.
Academic text (2012) -
Our case presented initially with acute renal failure, hypereosinophilia, and mild thrombocytopenia.
Academic text (2007) -
A 32-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes mellitus has had progressive renal failure.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
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3.0
A condition when the kidneys stop working and cannot remove waste or keep water and salts in balance
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6.3
A condition in which the kidneys cannot remove waste from the blood well
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5.1
A sudden severe loss of kidney function caused by injury or infection
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4.2
A sudden loss of the kidneys' ability to remove waste from the blood
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4.1
A long-term condition in which the kidneys slowly stop working well
Long-term loss of kidney function that makes waste build up in the body
How Well
- Specialized
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6.3
- Specialized
9
3.9
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'failure of the kidneys' is directly and compositionally derived from 'renal' (kidney-related) + 'failure' (loss of normal function). Although 'renal' is a medical register term, if a learner knows that constituent the overall sense is predictable; cross-linguistic cognates (e.g. French/Spanish 'rénal/renal') further support transparency.
Etymology
Renal failure comes from renal, an old Latin word for the body's 'kidneys', and failure, meaning 'not working'. So renal failure literally means the kidneys are not working, which is why we use it for the medical condition when the kidneys stop removing waste.