renal
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4.4
- adjective
- /ˈrɛnəl/
- Specialized
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renal
- Monitoring renal function is crucial for patients taking certain medications that may affect the kidneys.
- renal impairment
- renal function
- renal failure
We're dealing with very, very costly diseases, cancers, cardiac bypass, renal dialysis.
- We're dealing with very, very costly diseases, cancers, cardiac bypass, renal dialysis.
- Again, Bupropion is what they'll be prescribed instead with the caveats of seizure risk, renal disease, liver disease, etcetera.
- So all three major markers of renal function, kidney health actually didn't just stay the same, didn't get worse, they improved.
- Adaptive changes in vascular tone, heart rate, and renal reabsorption protect from protect us from blood volume loss and a drop in blood pressure.
- CBDPSP, all these other ones and including late stage cancers, including chronic renal failure.
- He suffers from blood poisoning, recovers from that and then has a heart attack and will eventually succumb to renal failure.
- Kidney failure, renal system shut down pancreatic cancer.
Examples
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He had some renal issues last year.
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- Kidney or renal problems?
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OK, who gets end stage renal disease?
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Could be in renal failure.
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Acute renal failure, I knew it.
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For example, the cost of renal care, end stage renal care for patients with kidney failure is enormous.
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That girl has renal failure due to juvenile diabetes.
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She's been in renal failure for months now.
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He's doing much better since you brought him in, but he does have renal failure.
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Once again, care should be taken to monitor renal function as electrolyte disturbance can occur.
Academic text (2011)
Compounds
- Specialized
9
3.9
A serious condition where the kidneys stop removing waste and balancing body fluids
- Specialized
1
6.3
A condition in which the kidneys cannot remove waste from the blood well
- Specialized
1
5.4
A blood vessel that carries blood from a kidney to the large vessel that returns blood to the heart
- Specialized
1
4.1
A long-term condition in which the kidneys slowly stop working well
- Specialized
1
5.1
A sudden severe loss of kidney function caused by injury or infection
- Specialized
1
6.6
Severe cramping pain in the lower back or side that often spreads to the groin
- Specialized
A funnel-like part inside the kidney that collects urine and sends it into the tube to the bladder
Surface Forms
Morphology
renal = ren + al
Although built from the combining form 'ren-' + the adjectival suffix '-al', the root 'ren' is not a standalone English word and learners will not transparently connect 'renal' with 'kidney'.
Etymology
Renal comes from the old Latin word renes, which means 'kidneys'. So renal means 'relating to the kidneys'.