Definition of Nephritic

1. Adjective. Affected by nephritis.

Partainyms: Nephritis
Derivative terms: Nephritis

2. Adjective. Of or relating to the kidneys.
Exact synonyms: Renal
Partainyms: Kidney, Kidney

Definition of Nephritic

1. a. Of or pertaining to the kidneys or urinary organs; renal; as, a nephritic disease.

2. n. A medicine adapted to relieve or cure disease of the kidneys.

Definition of Nephritic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the kidneys. ¹

2. Adjective. Of, relating to, or affected with nephritis. ¹

3. Noun. Someone with nephritis. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nephritic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Nephritic

1. A medicine adapted to relieve or cure disease of the kidneys. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nephritic

nephredema
nephrelcosis
nephric
nephric blastema
nephric duct
nephridia
nephridial
nephridiopore
nephrin
nephrins
nephrism
nephrisms
nephrite
nephrites
nephritic (current term)
nephritic calculus
nephritic factor
nephritic syndrome
nephritical
nephritick
nephritics
nephritides
nephritis
nephritis gravidarum
nephritises
nephritogenic
nephro-
nephroangiosclerosis
nephroblastema

Literary usage of Nephritic

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

1. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"It has also been suggested that nephritic edema may be due to a change in the ... In nephritic edema, however, the water is not intimately bound to the ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"In nephritic edema, however, the water is not intimately bound to the ... It would seem, therefore, that in nephritic edema an excessive amount of free ..."

3. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1915)
"From the point of view of physical diagnosis the cardiac enlargement and weakening due to nephritic hypertension presents little to distinguish it from ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Experimental Studies of nephritic (Edema.—SCHLAYER (Verhandl. d. Cong. f. innere Med., Wiesb., 1907, xxiv, 208), continuing the interesting researches ..."

5. Nephritis: An Experimental and Critical Study of Its Nature, Cause and the by Martin Fischer (1912)
"As a final word let us point out the fact that the nephritic kidney in ... The Changes in the Secretion of Dissolved Substances by the nephritic Kidney. ..."

6. Functional Pathology of Internal Diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"It has also been suggested that nephritic edema may be due to a change in the ... In nephritic edema, however, the water is not intimately bound to the ..."

7. Œdema and Nephritis: A Critical, Experimental and Clinical Study of the by Martin Fischer (1921)
"The nephritic portions of the kidney do not secrete water in chronic ... It is the uninjured cells between the nephritic portions which keep the water ..."

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