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nephropathies

nephropathies is the plural of nephropathy.

Meaning of nephropathy

Noun

nephropathy (plural nephropathies)

  1. Damage to, disease of, or abnormality of the kidneys.
    • 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

Questions about nephropathies

What is nephropathies the plural of?
Nephropathies is the plural of nephropathy.

Words near nephropathies in the dictionary

  1. nephronic
  2. nephronophthisis
  3. nephrons
  4. nephropathia
  5. nephropathic
  6. nephropathies
  7. nephropathogenesis
  8. nephropathogenic
  9. nephropathogenicity
  10. nephropathological
  11. nephropathologies

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