Word.ws English Dictionary

oligomeganephronia

oligomeganephronia noun: a kidney disease characterised by larger nephrons that are reduced in number.

Noun

oligomeganephronia (usually uncountable, plural oligomeganephronias)

  1. (usually) A kidney disease characterised by larger nephrons that are reduced in number
    • For example, oligomeganephronia, unilateral renal agenesis, renal dysplasia, reflux nephropathy, secondary to surgical or traumatic ablation, chronic allograft nephropathy, and other causes of nephron loss lead to FSGS.2015 July 9, Ying Maggie Chen, Helen Liapis, “Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis: molecular genetics and targeted therapies”, in BMC Nephrology, volume 16, →DOI

Forms of oligomeganephronia

pluraloligomeganephronias

Origin of oligomeganephronia

From oligo- + mega- + nephron + -ia.

Questions about oligomeganephronia

What does oligomeganephronia mean?
Oligomeganephronia means a kidney disease characterised by larger nephrons that are reduced in number.
What part of speech is oligomeganephronia?
Oligomeganephronia is a noun.
What is the plural of oligomeganephronia?
The plural of oligomeganephronia is oligomeganephronias.

Words near oligomeganephronia in the dictionary

  1. oligomannosyl
  2. oligomannosylated
  3. oligomannosyls
  4. oligomannuronate
  5. oligomannuronates
  6. oligomeganephronia
  7. oligomeganephronias
  8. oligomenorrhagia
  9. oligomenorrhea
  10. oligomenorrheas
  11. oligomenorrheic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: oligomeganephronia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “oligomeganephronia.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/oligomeganephronia. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.