nephrotic syndrome

Questions about nephrotic syndrome

What is another word for nephrotic syndrome?

It depends which nephrotic syndrome you mean. In the sense “a syndrome characterized by edema and large amounts of protein in the urine and usually increased blood cholesterol; usually associated with glomerulonephritis or with a complication of various systemic diseases”, the synonyms are nephrosis. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of nephrotic syndrome?

WordNet records no antonym for nephrotic syndrome. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for nephrotic syndrome come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of nephrotic syndrome

• Full entry for nephrotic syndromeAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for nephrotic syndromeWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.