renal
IPA: rˈinʌɫ
adjective
- Pertaining to the kidneys.
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Examples of "renal" in Sentences
- The patient was a young woman in renal failure following obstetrical complications.
- Phenazopyridine (Pyridium) poisoning: possible toxicity of methylene blue administration in renal failure.
- Individuals fly into Newark and present to our hospitals in renal failure, or pregnant and ready to deliver.
- She is at severe risk for long-term renal complications, including end stage renal disease (ESRD), dialysis, and transplant.
- Background The long-term renal consequences of kidney donation by a living donor are attracting increased appropriate interest.
- Because children with bilateral disease are at risk for developing renal failure, physicians must balance a desire to maintain long-term renal function with the goal of eliminating the cancer.
- The symptoms of kidney disease can be subtle — including trouble concentrating, lack of energy, nausea and poor appetite — so many people don't know they have a problem until they are in renal failure.
- So also with many of the other problems that I have touched upon, in renal and electrolyte physiology, as related to pulmonary disease, in blood formation, the physiology of the respiratory center, and so on.
- Renal function, as reflected by glomerular filtration rate and tubular secretion, decreases steadily with increasing age. 16 There is a 6-10 percentdecrease in renal function per decade after age 40, such that, even a healthy 70 year old male can have a 40-50percent decline of renal function. 7 Drugs which are cleared primarily by the kidneys will, therefore, take longer to be excreted.
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