kidney disease

1. 1.

   a disease affecting the kidneys

   Synonymsrenal disordernephropathynephrosis

   Broaderuropathy

   Narrowernephritisnephrosclerosispolycystic kidney diseasepolyuriarenal failurerenal insufficiency

Questions about kidney disease

What does kidney disease mean?

kidney disease means "a disease affecting the kidneys".

What is another word for kidney disease?

Close synonyms include renal disorder, nephropathy, nephrosis. 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 kidney disease a common word?

kidney disease 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.