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monokidney

monokidney noun: the condition of having a single kidney instead of the usual two.

Noun

monokidney (uncountable)

  1. The condition of having a single kidney instead of the usual two.
    • Special medical care and education should be afforded to living kidney donors and people with congenital monokidney, especially in pregnancy and other high-output situations like in patients with hyperthyroidism and arteriovenous fistula to avoid/correct volume overload conditions and to attenuate...2015 August 8, “Aggravated Cardiac Remodeling post Aortocaval Fistula in Unilateral Nephrectomized Rats”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of monokidney

From mono- + kidney.

Questions about monokidney

What does monokidney mean?
Monokidney means the condition of having a single kidney instead of the usual two.
What part of speech is monokidney?
Monokidney is a noun.

Words near monokidney in the dictionary

  1. monokaryotisation
  2. monoketal
  3. monoketals
  4. monoketone
  5. monoketones
  6. monokidney
  7. monokine
  8. monokines
  9. monokinetic
  10. monokinetid
  11. monokinetidal

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