Disease of the kidneys associated with dropsy (oedema) and the presence of albumin in the urine.

Inflammation of the renal parenchyma and pelvis; nephritis and pyelitis.

renal abscess.

A distended condition of the ureter, the pelvis, and the renal calices caused by an obstruction of the outflow of urine; dropsy of the kidney.

herniation of a kidney.

loss of renal function; renal failure.

The accumulation of pus in (the pelvis of) the kidney; hydronephrosis with purulent infection.

infection of the fat surrounding a kidney (as a complication of parametritis).

hardening or fibrosis of the kidney; spec. that caused by renal arteriosclerosis or hypertension.

downward displacement of a kidney; movable kidney.

a diseased kidney having a red, granular surface somewhat resembling that of a raspberry (probably as a result of arteriolar nephrosclerosis).

Pathol. wandering spleen, wandering kidney, wandering liver: see quots.

a malignant tumour of the cortical parenchyma of the kidney; originally such tumours were believed to derive from misplaced tissue of the suprarenal…

Originally: a disease of the kidneys, spec. one characterized by non-inflammatory degenerative changes in the renal tubules (now rare). Later also…

Wilms('s)or (erroneously) Wilm's tumour: a malignant tumour of the kidney that occurs in infants and children.

a syndrome characterized by loss of albumin and other proteins from the blood into the urine, oedema, and usually hyperlipidaemia, resulting from…

Fibrosis or hyalinization of the glomeruli of the kidneys.