Kidney Disease

A Kidney Disease is an organ disease of a kidney.

• AKA: Nephropathy.
• Context:
  • It can range from being an Acute Kidney Injure to being a Chronic Kidney Disease.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Liver Disease.
  • a Pancreatic Disease.
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• See: Nephritis, Disease, Nephrosis, Renal Function Measure, Renal Corpuscle, Renal Glomerulus.

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References

2015

• (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kidney_disease Retrieved:2015-10-25.
  • Kidney disease, also known as Nephropathy, means damage to or disease of a kidney. Nephrosis is non-inflammatory nephropathy. Nephritis is inflammatory kidney disease.

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