nephrotic, a. Path.
(nɛˈfrɒtɪk)
[f. prec.: see -otic.]
Of, associated with, or suffering from nephrosis.
| 1928 Amer. Jrnl. Path. IV. 633 Every case of glomerulonephritis has a certain nephrotic element. 1940 Jrnl. Clin. Invest. XIX. 317/1 The albumin was much reduced in plasma, but unlike a nephrotic serum with a similar diminution of albumin, the globulin increase was most striking in the γ-fraction. 1954 Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. CLXXVIII. 329/2 The results demonstrated either an unchanged or a diminished hepatic synthesis of cholesterol by the nephrotic rat. 1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. III. 141/2 An example of edema formation secondary to a decrease in the colloid osmotic pressure of the plasma proteins is nephrotic edema. |
b. nephrotic syndrome = nephrosis b.
| 1939 Arch. Internal Med. LXIII. 646 Throughout the last fifteen months of the patient's illness all the cardinal signs of the nephrotic syndrome were repeatedly found. 1961 Lancet 5 Aug. 290/2 Specimens were obtained from..2 [patients] with the nephrotic syndrome. 1974 Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. xxii. 30/2 In the case of toxic or allergic nephrotic syndrome the offending agent should be removed. |