Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

glomerulonephropathy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: glomeru-lonephropa-thy
IPA

36

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

3

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any disease of the renal glomeruli

Example Sentences

"Samples from 102 adult Dogue de Bordeaux dogs (47 non-proteinuric [urine protein-to-creatinine ratio≤0.2], 20 borderline-proteinuric [0.2 0.5]) were used, of which 2 were suffering from familial glomerulonephropathy."

Etymology

From glomerulo- + nephropathy.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: glomerulo

Inflected Forms

glomerulonephropathies (plural)

Questions

What does glomerulonephropathy mean?: Any disease of the renal glomeruli
Where does glomerulonephropathy come from?: From glomerulo- + nephropathy.

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