acute kidney injury

English

Noun

acute kidney injury (uncountable)

  2. (medicine, nephrology, pathology) A potentially fatal condition in which the kidneys suddenly lose their ability to filter waste from the blood.
    Synonyms: AKI (initialism), ARF, acute renal failure, AKF, acute kidney failure
    Hypernyms: KD, kidney disease < disease, disorder, malady < condition
    Coordinate terms: CKD, chronic kidney disease
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