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nephroangiosclerosis

nephroangiosclerosis noun: sclerosis of the renal arterioles.

Noun

nephroangiosclerosis (plural nephroangioscleroses)

  1. sclerosis of the renal arterioles
    • The recorded causes of kidney disease were as follows: diabetic nephropathy (in 21% of the patients), nephroangiosclerosis and glomerulonephritis (18%), interstitial nephropathy (7%), hypertensive nephropathy (5%), polykystosis (5%) and other recorded diagnoses (hereditary disease, solitary kidney...2015 July 17, “The Addition of Vascular Calcification Scores to Traditional Risk Factors Improves Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of nephroangiosclerosis

pluralnephroangioscleroses

Origin of nephroangiosclerosis

From nephro- + angiosclerosis.

Questions about nephroangiosclerosis

What does nephroangiosclerosis mean?
Nephroangiosclerosis means sclerosis of the renal arterioles.
What part of speech is nephroangiosclerosis?
Nephroangiosclerosis is a noun.
What is the plural of nephroangiosclerosis?
The plural of nephroangiosclerosis is nephroangioscleroses.

Words near nephroangiosclerosis in the dictionary

  1. nephritogenic
  2. nephritogenicity
  3. nephro-
  4. nephroabdominal
  5. nephroangioscleroses
  6. nephroangiosclerosis
  7. nephroblast
  8. nephroblastic
  9. nephroblastoma
  10. nephroblastomas
  11. nephroblastomata

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