Definition of Nephrotoxic

1. Adjective. Toxic to the kidney.

Similar to: Toxic
Derivative terms: Nephrotoxin

Definition of Nephrotoxic

1. Adjective. that is poisonous to kidney tissue ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nephrotoxic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Nephrotoxic

1. Toxic or destructive to kidney cells. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nephrotoxic

nephrostome
nephrostomes
nephrostomy
nephrostomy tube
nephrotic
nephrotic oedema
nephrotic syndrome
nephrotics
nephrotome
nephrotomic
nephrotomic cavity
nephrotomies
nephrotomogram
nephrotomography
nephrotomy
nephrotoxic (current term)
nephrotoxic drug
nephrotoxicities
nephrotoxicity
nephrotoxin
nephrotoxins
nephrotrophic
nephrotropic
nephrotuberculosis
nephroureterectomy
nephroureterocystectomy
nephs
nephthytis
nepiology
nepionic

Literary usage of Nephrotoxic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1903)
"Hepatotoxic immune serum causes a marked disturbance of the renal function, which cannot be distinguished from the disturbance caused by nephrotoxic serum. ..."

2. Infection, Immunity and Serum Therapy: In Relation to the Infectious by Howard Taylor Ricketts (1908)
"To the action of the new-formed bodies were attributed the degenerative changes which were found in the opposite kidney, and the nephrotoxic properties ..."

3. Infection, immunity and serum therapy in relation to the infectious diseases by Howard Taylor Ricketts, George Frederick Dick (1913)
"To the action of the new-formed bodies were attributed the degenerative changes which were found in the opposite kidney, and the nephrotoxic properties ..."

4. The Journal of Medical Research by American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists (1908)
"... serum (prepared by injecting the rabbit with dog's kidney) has a definite nephrotoxic power when injected into the blood stream of a second dog. ..."

5. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1903)
"Albarran and Bernard also carried out a series of observations as to the action of nephrotoxic serum. Lindemann obtained a highly nephrotoxic serum by ..."

6. Infection, Immunity and Serum Therapy: In Relation to the Infectious by Howard Taylor Ricketts (1906)
"To the action of the new-formed bodies were attributed the degenerative changes which were found in the opposite kidney, and the nephrotoxic properties ..."

7. Internal Secretion and the Ductless Glands by Swale Vincent (1912)
"nephrotoxic effect of the serum of rabbits into which he had injected an emulsion of guinea-pig kidney. This observer also could not confirm the ..."

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