nephrosis

Other forms of nephrosis

plural

nephrosises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nephrosis

What does nephrosis mean?

nephrosis means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nephrosis?

nephrosis has 3 syllables: neph-ro-sis. The stress falls on "ro". In IPA it is /nəˈfɹoʊsəs/.

What is another word for nephrosis?

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

nephrosis 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.