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Nephropathy
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nephropathy [nə′fräp·ə·thē]
(medicine)
Any disease of the kidney.
nephrosis
Nephropathy 

a general term that includes several renal disorders. Classified as nephropathies are nephropathy of pregnancy and a group of other kidney diseases that are distinguished from each other by a variety of morphological changes. This latter group of diseases includes myelogenous nephropathy, endemic, or Balkan, nephropathy, medicinally induced nephropathy, kaliopenic nephropathy, and hypercalcemic nephropathy.

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Osnovy nefrologii, vol. 2. Edited by E. M. Tareev. Moscow, 1972.
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