kidney
- noun
- /ˈkɪdni/
- Patients with chronic illness often experience kidney problems that need regular monitoring.
- kidney disease
- kidney stones
- kidney transplant
Like, oh, come to my unassisted kidney transplant.
- Like, oh, come to my unassisted kidney transplant.
- It's clearly right here between the kidney and the liver over here.
- A pig heart, liver, lung, kidney is roughly the size for an adult man.
- So the test results would show that my kidneys had failed.
- That of course, now represents half of our kidney transplants in this country.
- And yet kidney cells are different from liver cells.
- Skin, lung, breast, head, neck, bladder, brain, kidney, prostate:, and stomach cancer.
- No adverse effects, no kidney issues, no problems.
Examples
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The doctor explained how the kidney filters waste products from the blood.
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OK, how does the kidney accomplish these functions?
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Let's talk about kidney symptoms that you might miss.
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There are few people now who are having kidney transplant.
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I thought you were donating a kidney or something.
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The tests I ran show a bad infection in both your kidneys and your lungs.
Fiction book (1994) -
They need dialysis or or a kidney transplant.
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ARF is usually reversible, the kidney being able to recover from almost complete loss of function.
Academic text (1995) -
Eleven of the 12 recipients had been on dialysis prior to receiving a kidney transplant.
Academic text (2008) -
After the accident, he was diagnosed with a damaged kidney that required immediate attention.
Compounds
A condition when the kidneys stop working and cannot remove waste or keep water and salts in balance
A large red seed shaped like a kidney that people cook and eat or the plant that grows it
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A long-term disease in which many small bags filled with liquid grow in the kidneys and make them bigger
A pastry filled with pieces of beef and kidneys, often cooked in gravy
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A sudden loss of the kidneys' ability to remove waste from the blood
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A machine that filters waste from a person's blood when the kidneys do not work
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Long-term loss of kidney function that makes waste build up in the body
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A cancer in a young child's kidney that often causes high blood pressure, blood in urine, and a belly lump
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A curved artery at the border between the kidney's outer and inner parts that supplies blood to the kidney
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A curved vein at the border of the kidney that carries blood from small kidney veins to larger ones
- UK
A plant that lives for many years with round heads of yellow or red flowers in meadows
How Big
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Kidney comes from an old English word cwiðe that meant 'belly' or 'womb', because people often named inner body parts by where they were. So kidney now names the bean-shaped organs in the lower belly that clean the blood.