acute kidney failure

1. 1.

   renal failure associated with burns or other trauma or with acute infection or obstruction of the urinary tract

   Synonymsacute renal failure

   Broaderrenal failure

Questions about acute kidney failure

What does acute kidney failure mean?

acute kidney failure means "renal failure associated with burns or other trauma or with acute infection or obstruction of the urinary tract".

What is another word for acute kidney failure?

Close synonyms include acute renal failure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acute kidney failure a common word?

acute kidney failure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.