acute renal failure

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

   Synonymsacute kidney failure

   Broaderrenal failure

Questions about acute renal failure

What does acute renal failure mean?

acute renal 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 renal failure?

Close synonyms include acute kidney 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 renal failure a common word?

acute renal 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.