“renal disease”

We have one entry that includes the term renal disease.

end-stage renal disease

noun

: the final stage of kidney failure (as that resulting from diabetes, chronic hypertension, or glomerulonephritis) that is marked by the complete or nearly complete irreversible loss of renal function


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