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Bright's disease

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Bright's disease

[′brīts di‚zēz]
(medicine)
Any of several kidney diseases attended by glomerulonephritis.
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On the pathology of the morbid state commonly called chronic Bright's disease with contracted kidney (arterio-capillary fibrosis).
Little more was known about Bright's disease, and still little could be done for it, when Joan's father died of the condition in 1954, at age 45.
Despite an exceptional career, Colonel Young was medically retired in 1917 for high blood pressure and Bright's disease purportedly incurred during his attache service in Liberia.
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Lydia, delicate now in 1878, fatally ill with Bright's disease, and May, robust.
He died of Bright's Disease in 1901, 'a poor man, leaving his widow destitute', to quote his son, Henry.
The first president to commit this offense was Chester Arthur, who was diagnosed with Bright's disease, a fatal kidney disorder, during his first year in office.
Richard Bright, discoverer of Bright's disease. Her childhood began in opulence, changing, when she was four years old, to less fortunate circumstances and adolescent years in Southern California in private schools.
These included rheumatic disorders, asthma, Bright's disease and other renal infections, and more ominously, impotence, malignant epitheliom and syphilis.
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