chronic renal failure

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   renal failure that can result from a variety of systemic disorders

   Synonymschronic kidney failure

   Broaderrenal failure

Questions about chronic renal failure

What does chronic renal failure mean?

chronic renal failure means "renal failure that can result from a variety of systemic disorders".

What is another word for chronic renal failure?

Close synonyms include chronic 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 chronic renal failure a common word?

chronic 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.