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RENAL FAILURE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inability of the kidneys to excrete wastes and to help maintain the electrolyte balance

Synonyms:

kidney failure; renal failure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("renal failure" is a kind of...):

failure (loss of ability to function normally)

kidney disease; nephropathy; nephrosis; renal disorder (a disease affecting the kidneys)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "renal failure"):

acute kidney failure; acute renal failure (renal failure associated with burns or other trauma or with acute infection or obstruction of the urinary tract)

chronic kidney failure; chronic renal failure (renal failure that can result from a variety of systemic disorders)

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 Context examples: 

It is associated with marked proteinuria and leads to progressive renal failure.

(Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis, NCI Thesaurus)

Febuxostat may provide protection against acute renal failure caused by the excessive release of uric acid that occurs upon massive tumor cell lysis resulting from the treatment of some malignancies.

(Febuxostat, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by gradual and usually permanent loss of kidney function resulting in renal failure.

(Chronic Kidney Disease, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Signs and symptoms include blindness, obesity, hearing loss, endocrine abnormalities, cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure, hepatic and renal failure.

(Alstrom Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Sequelae may include hypertension, atherosclerosis, infection, hypercoagulablity and renal failure.

(Nephrotic Syndrome with Lesion of Endothelial Glomerulonephritis, NCI Thesaurus)

Acute renal failure caused by the cell death of the renal tubules.

(Acute Renal Failure with Tubular Necrosis, NCI Thesaurus)

It occurs in patients with renal failure who had imaging studies performed using gadolinium.

(Nephrogenic Fibrosing Dermopathy, NCI Thesaurus)

A form of thrombotic microangiopathy with renal failure, hemolytic anemia, and severe thrombocytopenia.

(Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Amyloidosis and severe renal failure occur more frequently than in multiple myeloma.

(Light Chain Deposition Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients present with progressive renal failure early in life.

(Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease, NCI Thesaurus)