: being or occurring in the final stages of a terminal disease or condition
end-stage renal disease

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How better to represent Hwang’s themes of end-stage, winners-and-losers capitalism, with its warping, destructive power, and how the ill-intentioned can exploit democracy’s flaws, than to depict an ordinary person buffeted by the unseen hand of pain for profit? Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025 Wendt also suffered from end-stage renal disease, otherwise known as kidney failure, and hyperlipidemia. Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 11 June 2025 Additionally, Wendt's death was due to significant contributing conditions, including end-stage renal disease, otherwise known as kidney failure, and hyperlipidemia. Esther Kang, People.com, 5 June 2025 Additional contributing conditions listed include end-stage renal disease or kidney failure, and hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol). Denise Petski, Deadline, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for end-stage

Word History

First Known Use

1920, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of end-stage was in 1920

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“End-stage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/end-stage. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

Medical Definition

end-stage

adjective
: being or occurring in the final stages of a terminal disease or condition
end-stage liver failure
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