the medical condition in which the kidney does not remain fixed in its proper location but has abnormal mobility
Also called: floating kidney
Examples of 'nephroptosis' in a sentence
nephroptosis
Postnatal migration of a kidney has been described in cases of diaphragmatic hernia or nephroptosis.
Eleftherios Zolotas, Rajesh G. Krishnan 2016, 'Subdiaphragmatic Renal Ectopia: Case Report and Review of the Literature', Case Reports in Nephrologyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1084917. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)