Definition of Nephrotoxin

1. Noun. Any toxin that affects the kidneys.

Generic synonyms: Toxin
Derivative terms: Nephrotoxic

Definition of Nephrotoxin

1. Noun. Any nephrotoxic substance. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Nephrotoxin

1. A cytotoxin that is specific for cells of the kidney. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nephrotoxin

nephrotic
nephrotic oedema
nephrotic syndrome
nephrotics
nephrotome
nephrotomic
nephrotomic cavity
nephrotomies
nephrotomogram
nephrotomography
nephrotomy
nephrotoxic
nephrotoxic drug
nephrotoxicities
nephrotoxicity
nephrotoxin (current term)
nephrotoxins
nephrotrophic
nephrotropic
nephrotuberculosis
nephroureterectomy
nephroureterocystectomy
nephs
nephthytis
nepiology
nepionic
nepit
nepitella
nepits
nepotal

Literary usage of Nephrotoxin

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

1. A Textbook of bacteriology: A Practical Treatise for Students and by Hans Zinsser, Frederick Fuller Russell (1922)
"In the hands of Pearce and others, however, the strict specificity of nephrotoxin could not be upheld and the subject is still in the experimental stage. ..."

2. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1911)
"The nephrotoxin formed in B acts chiefly upon the kidneys of A because in the animal B, which has l>een rendered immane with the kidney extract, ..."

3. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1903)
"In order to determine the effects upon the kidney of the nephrotoxin on the ... Through the use, therefore, of a method of analysis a nephrotoxin free from ..."

4. Review of American Chemical Research by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Arthur Amos Noyes, William Albert Noyes (1905)
"nephrotoxin causes the most specific change. The haemolymph glands play some important part in the production of eosinophiles. The haemolytic action of ..."

5. Immunity and Specific Therapy by Walter d'Este Emery (1909)
"His results might, of course, have been due to the formation of a nephrotoxin in consequence of the disintegration of the renal cells subsequent to ligature ..."

6. Physiology, Pathology, Bacteriology, Anatomy (1902)
"nephrotoxin, obtained by W. Lindemann (Ann. I'Inst. Past., 1900, No. ... nephrotoxin by tying the ureter of a rabbit, which bore the operation well, ..."

7. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"This criticism, however, is primarily directed not at the specificity of the nephrotoxin, with which we are alone concerned, but at the basic theory of the ..."

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